Overcoming Doubt Quotes

• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”, p.281

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• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

  Dale Carnegie

  Confidence, Fear, Weight Loss

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.13, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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  If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Morning

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  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Energy and persistence conquer all things.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Blaine McCormick, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “Ben Franklin: America's original entrepreneur : Franklin's autobiography adapted for modern times”, Entrepreneur Pr

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• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.545, Anchor

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• Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Doubt, Madness

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• Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Doubt, Beacons

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1931, Oxford University Press

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• The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fear, Doubt, Unbelief

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.114

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• It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

  John Burroughs

  Believe, Optimism, Mind

  John Burroughs (1900). “Writings: The light of day”

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• Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

  Philip Massinger

  Fall, Doubt, Despair

  Philip Massinger (1816). “The Duke of Milan: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.10

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• Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Doubt, When In Doubt

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• When in doubt, don't.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Doubt, When In Doubt

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• Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Optimism, Doubt, Literature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.130

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• Doubt is the father of invention.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Father, Stupidity, Doubt

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