Top 100 Be Certain Quotes
#1. You do not need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of
Itzik Amiel
#2. You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229)
Paulo Coelho
#3. It's as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. Every time Barack Obama's poll numbers rise you can be certain he's done something else to weaken the country. He's empowered a base that loathes American excellence.
Dennis Quaid
#4. We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.
Frederic Bastiat
#5. We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.
John Desmond Bernal
#6. It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.
Robert Falcon Scott
#7. It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
G.K. Chesterton
#8. First, you must be certain that you are ready for knowledge. There are many things that we bury in our minds for a reason. Are you sure that you want to go digging up the past?"- Elsie (Marked Book #1) page 226
A.N. Meade
#9. I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last
Nicholas Sparks
#10. If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.
John McAfee
#11. It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.
Rene Descartes
#12. Whenever a great thinker wants to make of himself a binding institution for future mankind, one may be certain that he is past the peak of his powers and is very weary, very close to the setting of his sun.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. Sex is not a tryout. If she fails to live up to your expectations in the bedroom, will you love her less? If so, you can be certain you never loved her to begin with.
Jason Evert
#14. Every day you are apt to see someone whom you thought you knew through and through do something that proves how little you really know people or can be certain about anything.
Hermann Hesse
#15. For a moment Bramblestar thought that he could see Firestar and Dustpelt weaving around the two new-made elders, the four cats united again. But before he could be certain, the image faded.
Erin Hunter
#16. The enemy will never attack you where you are strongest. . . . He will attack where you are weakest. If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will.
William R. Forstchen
#17. Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.
Martin Luther
#18. Wick to be certain it was entirely extinguished. Energy like your energy.
Maggie Stiefvater
#19. She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.
Shamim Sarif
#20. I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
Fiona Shaw
#21. Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
Josh Billings
#22. Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#23. There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.
Philip K. Dick
#24. Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.
Rumi
#25. September shut her eyes several times and opened them again, just to be sure, just to be certain she was back in Fairyland, that she wasn't simply knocked silly by her fall.
Catherynne M Valente
#26. even when police are indicted, we cannot be certain that change is on the agenda. There
Angela Y. Davis
#27. The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.
Albert Einstein
#28. There's a beast in me. I destroy those I cannot control. I must be certain that those close to me share my identical interests. I'm benevolent within that construction. I'm ghastly outside of it.
James Ellroy
#29. One thing we can be certain: A person that is engaging in violence is hurting deeply, because a healthy and balanced soul is incapable of harming another.
Gary Zukav
#30. To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
William Gilmore Simms
#31. A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.
J.G. Holland
#32. We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me.
Wilbur Mills
#33. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. - NORMAN MAILER
Kevin Fedarko
#34. Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#35. Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.
Edsger Dijkstra
#36. Still, Amelia had not allowed herself to be certain until dessert, when she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II.
Gabrielle Zevin
#37. Be certain," Catelyn told her son, "or go home and take up that wooden sword again. You cannot afford to seem indecisive in front of men like Roose Bolton and Rickard Karstark. Make no mistake, Robb-these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command.
George R R Martin
#38. Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#39. I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#40. You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.
Erica Bauermeister
#41. There are two things you can be certain of: dying and getting the arse as a football coach.
Royce Hart
#42. I may not ever be able to be certain what is absolutely True ... but I sure as heck can work to find out what isn't true! Moreover, I can improve my model of the world, by slowly, carefully finding out what is truer than what I already know.
David Brin
#43. He, too, stood looking at her for a moment
and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning ...
Ayn Rand
#44. If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
Arthur C. Clarke
#45. I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.
Lauren DeStefano
#46. But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
#47. The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#48. To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
Ernest Renan
#49. Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.
Huangbo Xiyun
#50. The most reliable way to be certain of their classroom impact is through independent studies conducted by third-party organisations which compare the student growth in our corps members' classrooms to that of other teachers in similar situations.
Wendy Kopp
#51. Be certain that Yasser Arafat's final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that ... the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep.
Mohammed Dahlan
#53. Finding a life partner is like choosing a bed. You need one as a friend either in times of health or sickness. Freshness or weariness. Happiness or sadness. And we can be certain that we've picked the right one without having to sleep with it first.
Isman H. Suryaman
#54. That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history. We must remember the history, and be certain that what we present to the world as knowledge is disinterested and honest.
Michael Crichton
#55. For all armies are the finest in the world. The second finest army, if one could exist, would be in a notoriously inferior position; it would be certain to be beaten. It ought to be disbanded at once. Therefore, all armies are the finest in the world.
Anatole France
#56. In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.
Kanan Makiya
#57. But it is not really necessary to look too far into the future; we see enough already to be certain that it will be magnificent. Only let us hurry and open the roads.
David McCullough
#58. The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.
David Lloyd-Jones
#59. You should be certain that angels are protecting you when you go to sleep. Yea, that they are protecting you also in all your business, whether you enter or leave your home.
Martin Luther
#60. People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.
Bob Newhart
#61. When you find a truth that surpasses your desire to fit trends and meet approval, you can be certain it's worth fighting to spread.
Caroline George
#62. Small does of advertising result in nothing, obviously. It's like giving a sick person half the medicine he needs. It just causes more suffering. Give the whole dose, and the cure will be certain and decisive.
P.T. Barnum
#63. I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
G.K. Chesterton
#64. One promise of which we can be certain ... when we respond to trials with faith and trust, God will use our suffering for good, and it will point people to God and bring glory to Him.
Wendy Blight
#65. Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
#66. Try to focus on customers flow and business potential the business you are investing in might or might not have, because that is basically the only way you will be certain that you have made a smart decision.
Mike Jellick
#67. Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#68. Death comes to us all, that is the only thing we can be certain of. It makes no difference whether it is a thief in a garbage dump or a policeman in the line of duty. When someone dies at the hands of another, the pain for the survivors is the same.
Kjell Eriksson
#69. I'll be certain to feel superior as they hurl insults and rocks in my direction."
"I thought southern people were supposed to be warm and welcoming."
"Only to your face.
Andrea Laurence
#70. No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next.
Orson Scott Card
#71. Don't know if a God exists, but anyone who claims to be certain of His absence probably lacks humility more than faith.
Wayne Gladstone
#72. Have fun with the uncertainty of life. When you learn to do so, you will be certain to win.
Kevin Abdulrahman
#73. Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.
Timothy Leary
#74. Do not lose focus because of small wins or temporary set-backs. You can only score if you keep your eyes on the ball and be certain of where you want to place it even if you are not in physical sight of the goal. Visualise the dream but never take your eyes off the dynamic plan of action.
Archibald Marwizi
#75. Yet there be certain times in a young man's life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood
Rudyard Kipling
#76. You can be just as certain that God will give you little pieces of Heaven, little appetizers for Heaven, for the rest of your life on earth as you can be certain that He will give you the fullness of Heaven when you die.
Peter Kreeft
#77. I wish to be certain that I am converted myself, before I leave my converted brethren to convert heathens.
Joseph Benson
#78. The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.
Bob McDonnell
#79. I couldn't be certain whether their eagerness to leave was fueled by their desire to see more fire or to get away from my mother. I wouldn't have blamed them at all if it was the latter - most people went to great lengths to avoid her on a regular basis, myself and my father included.
Heather James
#80. The regime must allow immediate and unrestricted access to every site, every document, and every person identified by inspectors. Iraq can be certain that the old game of cheat-and-retreat tolerated at other times will no longer be tolerated.
George W. Bush
#81. When the culture of an organization mandates that it is more important to protect the reputation of a system and those in power than it is to protect the basic human dignity of individuals or communities, you can be certain that shame is systemic, money drives ethics, and accountability is dead.
Brene Brown
#82. If a 6 foot tall talking Badger comes to your door with a great deal on health insurance, be certain to ask if it includes in-patient psychiatric care.
David C. Holley
#83. Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#84. My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.
Blake Judd
#85. If these pages are thick with death, think of the battlefield. Corpses in different stages of decay, the slowly dying, moments of death exist around you everywhere. Who are you? You are among the living, but can you be certain?
Susan Griffin
#86. You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.
Horace
#87. Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer.
Martin Zwilling
#88. Wherever the Word of God is hidden or ignored, there will be certain destruction.
Billy Graham
#89. It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
Thomas Huxley
#90. What is spoken of the unchanging or intelligible must be certain and true; but what is spoken of the created image can only be probable; being is to becoming what truth is to belief.
Plato
#91. The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
Monica Ali
#92. Don't worry, tracker. You'll know when our deal is up ... I'll be certain you hear it when I make her scream.
Leigh Bardugo
#93. What you must do," said Monkey, "is lure the monster from its hiding place, but be certain it is a fight you can survive.
Wu Cheng'en
#94. You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?
John Lloyd
#95. If you think of doing something in New York City, you can be certain that at least two thousand other people have the same thought. And of the two thousand who do, about one thousand will be standing in line waiting to do it.
E.L. Konigsburg
#96. No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.
Harrison Salisbury
#97. Don't put stock in past lives. It's this life that makes the difference. And in this life, there may be certain destinies, people you're meant to meet.
-Mrs. Northe
Leanna Renee Hieber
#99. The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing.
Rene Descartes
#100. Of this we can be certain: at no time, in no place, and in no way is anything in the universe separate, independent, or unrelated.
Dee Hock
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