Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.
There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.
All business proceeds on beliefs or judgment of probabilities and not on certainties.
Throughout this life you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy whi...
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people I would say to myself "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the clever...
Success comes to the people who never ever doubt themselves.
He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.
Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
But, oh, when gloomy doubts prevail,I fear to call thee mine;The springs of comfort seem to fail,And all my hopes decline.Yet, gracious God, where shall I flee?Thou art my only trust;And still my soul...
I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that.... Accept that it's unknown and it's plain...
I may not be sure if monsters exist but I'd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.