Quotes About Doubting Yourself

#1. A complete waste of time - doubting yourself. If you make the slightest mistake, someone else is sure to let you know about it.

Katarina Bivald

#2. Simply put, if you are not doubting yourself or not thinking of other things that you could be doing instead of the task at hand, you're probably not working hard enough

Dos Remedios, Robert

#3. I've learned from personal experience that insecurity and doubting yourself can really hurt you.

Bridgit Mendler

#4. I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself ... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Gary Larson

#5. Often people just don't see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can't do your best when you're doubting yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?

Michael Jackson

#6. There's no value in doubting yourself. Accept your brilliance.

Mo Ali

#7. As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.

James Marsden

#8. I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way.

Michael Owen

#9. Instead of doubting yourself, have faith in yourself. Instead of doubting the truth, doubt the lies. Be skeptical, but learn to listen.

Miguel Ruiz

#10. Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

Abraham Lincoln

#11. To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!

Mary McLeod Bethune

#12. We ought not give ourselves the benefit of the doubt if we plan on doubting everything else.

G.K. Chesterton

#13. Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

Idris Elba

#14. Patience means awaiting God's time, without doubting God's love.

Gregg Harris

#15. Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.

R. Scott Bakker

#16. Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.

Michael R. French

#17. By doubting we come to inquiry. By inquiry we come to Truth.

Peter Abelard

#18. When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.

Carla H. Krueger

#19. Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

Albert Pike

#20. When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#21. If you doubted your fears instead of doubting your dreams, imagine how much in life you'd accomplish.

Joel Brown

#22. Maybe
maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure
never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

John Steinbeck

#23. Seeds of doubt, once planted, will grow.

Lesley Lokko

#24. By doubting we come at truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#25. I always say about my daughters, they save me from my miserable self. They take me out, you know, a comedian, you could live in your head a lot. And you're writing and you're doubting. But when I'm with my kids and my family, it's all about them.

Chris Rock

#26. It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#27. It was a trap after all," Alric said. He turned to Royce. "My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.

Michael J. Sullivan

#28. Praying and then doubting whether it will be heard or manifested is really doubting the Universe's power.

Maddy Malhotra

#29. So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while still anxious, surrounded by a cloud of light while still in darkness, in love while still doubting.

Henri Nouwen

#30. What is the best thing about people doubting your potential?
The pleasure of proving them wrong.

Ameya Agrawal

#31. Everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if ...

Nancy Lopez

#32. There will always being those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen for yourself.
They don't see the part of you that smolders.
Don't let their doubting drown out the sound
of your own heartbeat.

Clementine Von Radics

#33. No matter how happy you are; start assuming, suspecting and doubting; and make yourself the most unhappy person on the universe.

Suman Pokhrel

#34. Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.

Dale Carnegie

#35. If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.

Jaggi Vasudev

#36. But over time people break apart, no matter how enormous the love they feel for one another is, and it is through the breaking and the reconciliation, the love and the doubting of love, the judgment and then the coming together again, that we find our own identity and define our relationships.

Ann Patchett

#37. Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater.

Amy Alkon

#38. It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#39. Believe while others are doubting.

William Arthur Ward

#40. Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

#41. The mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man's foot and stops him forever from advancing.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#42. The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?

Edgar Guest

#43. I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious ... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Thomas Huxley

#44. Can it be out of discretion, and a reluctance to hurt, that they affect to be unaware of my existence? But this is a refinement of feeling which can hardly be attributed to the dogs that come pissing against my abode, apparently never doubting that it contains some flesh and bones.

Samuel Beckett

#45. Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you're blindly sauntering along.

Auliq Ice

#46. If we're experiencing doubts about the healing received, we must recognize that the source of the doubt is the devil.

Paul Silway

#47. Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier

Thomas S. Monson

#48. Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live.

Marty Rubin

#49. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

Bram Stoker

#50. I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach. Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times.

Deepak Chopra

#51. The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.

Larry Ellison

#52. For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else.

C.S. Lewis

#53. Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.

Ramana Maharshi

#54. Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Mark Buchanan

#55. I read the story about the loaves and fishes and thought about Jesus gazing at the hungry crowd, saying to his anxious, doubting, screwed-up followers: "You give them something to eat." So we did.

Sara Miles

#56. Doubting things go ill often hurts more
Than to be sure they do; for certainties
Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
The remedy then born.

William Shakespeare

#57. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allan Poe

#58. You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.

Stanislaw Lem

#59. I'll go walking in circles
While doubting the very ground beneath me
Trying to show unquestioning faith in everything

David Sylvian

#60. The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence ... The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Richard Dawkins