100 Quotes About Uncertainty

It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying out of the corrosive fire. The coward is a trickster serpent, which vanishes in your time of despair, and appears in time of equanimity. Michael Bassey Johnson

The most difficult step ever is the first step. It comes with doubts, uncertainties, and all sort of fears. If you defy all odd and take it, your confidence will replicate very fast and you'll become a master! Israelmore Ayivor

If you miss what seems so glamorous; if you miss what seems so fantastic to have, don't worry. It may be just a matter of fantasy to have it. Real things are rare but real to have. serendipity and the vicissitudes of life determine what is real, ideal and what is a fantasy. The real future is uncertain to all. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Every declaration we make is like a seed planted, whose harvest we can't possibly foretell. AuliqIce

He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and uncertainties of the future better Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow are hidden to all. We however hope for a tomorrow to do what we have to do tomorrow because we think we shall surely have a tomorrow. Worry therefore not about tomorrow and understand instead that once there shall be a tomorrow, there shall be a good tomorrow. If there shall be a good tomorrow, then there shall be a good tomorrow for you. Stay positive! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The person who offends, and the person who has been offended and awaiting for a revenge have one thing in common: the real uncertainties of tomorrow is truly uncertain to both of them. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties. Marieta Maglas

Uncertainty is a path without an end. He who wants to completely do away with uncertainties before starting a purposeful journey of life shall always end a purposeful journey on the path of uncertainties without beginning any purposeful journey of life Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot. Johann Von Goethe

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. Ernestine Ulmer

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar. Unknown

Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness. Rose Macaulay

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. Jane Bryant Quinn

Our lives are never certain even for an hour. Ferrant Sanchez Calavera

Throughout this life you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath. Huang Po

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning middle and end. Life is about not knowing having to change taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Gilda Radner

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. Mario Thomas

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion. Oliver Wendell Holmes

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. George Eliot

We are not certain we are never certain. Albert Camus

We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet. Barbara Ward

All business proceeds on beliefs or judgment of probabilities and not on certainties. Charles W. Eliot

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides. Henri Frederic Amiel

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. Owen Meredith

Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! George Meredith

When I was young I was sure of everything in a few years having been mistaken a thousand times I was not half so sure of most things as I was before at present I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed. John Wesley

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. Eric Hoffer

You are all you will ever have for certain. June Havoc

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so. Oliver Wendell Holmes

A reasonable probability is the only certainty. Edgar Watson Howe

Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one. Voltaire

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities the strength the wisdom the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen. Charlton Ogburn

To be absolutely certain about something one must know everything or nothing about it. Olin Miller

We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end. Blaise Pascal

Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight. Horatio Nelson

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win. Sir Ian Hamilton

There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain. W Somerset Maugham

The only certainty is that nothing is certain. Pliny The Elder

I'm often wrong but never in doubt. Ivy Baker Priest

There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain. Samuel Butler

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. John E. Kennedy

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness. Mark Rutherford

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 sailing. John Lennon

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers. Agnes Thornton

When nothing is sure everything is possible. Margaret Drabble

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea. Anonymous

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. Tennessee Williams

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time. Andre Gide

To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. Bertrand Russell

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late. Lee Iacocca

The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right. Mark Rutherford

Not seeing is half-believing. Vita Sackvillewest

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning. E. J. Klemme

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me. Olga Broumas

To end with certainty we must begin with doubting. Stanislaus

Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Maria Schinz

In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope. Bernie S. Siegel

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. Elizabeth Bowen

Faith hasn't got no eyes but she's long-legged. Zora Neale Hurston

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty. John H. Finley

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so. Belva Davis

If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. Francis Bacon

I said here's the river I want to flow on here's the direction I want to go and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles. Nancy Woodhull

The future is no more uncertain than the present. Walt Whitman

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. Henry Ford II

Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave something else happens. Lillian Carter

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life.... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future. E. Stanley Jones

I think I look good out there. I'm strong powerful and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone. Jill Trenary

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 cleverest nation.... Why should you be frightened?" Beatrice Potter Webb

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. Tehyi Hsieh

To Death I yield but not to Doubt who slays before! Edith M. Thomas

Soon after a heart-wrung decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt on your choice. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves your decision. R. I. Fitzhenry

Doubt breeds doubt. Franz Grillparzer

It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can. Celine Dion

From a shy timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles. Anna Dostoevsky

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Kahlil Gibran

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend. Helen Keller

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. Frances Ridley Havergal

When one devotes oneself to meditation mental burdens unnecessary worries and wandering thoughts drop off one by one life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition second thought with its dualism doubt and hesitation does not arise. Nyogen Senzaki

In doubt fear is the worst of prophets. Statius

Faith and doubt both are needed not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. Lillian Smith

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies. William Wrigley

When in doubt do it. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Yes I have doubted. I have wandered off the path but I always return. It is intuitive an intrinsic built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home. Helen Hayes

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. Alexandre Dumas

Doubt whom you will but never yourself. Christian Bovee

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. Christian Bovee

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. Nancy Kerrigan

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 which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure it will kill your efforts neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible. Charles Baudouin

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. William Congreve

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of "The Look." Lauren Bacall

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. Erich Fromm

All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand. Antonio Machado

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be. William Sloane Coffin

When we are not sure we are alive. Graham Greene

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst. Albert Camus