#doubts

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#deplorable #doubt #doubts #even #everything

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. ↗

— William Wirt

#curiosity #desire #doubts #excited #ignorance

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#annihilate #been #capacity #colored #common

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach. ↗

— William Barclay

#attained #certainty #christ #conviction #doubts

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#after #became #bush #citizens #comfortable

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#equal #goals #minus #reality #your

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#courses #doubts #helps #i #people

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#doubts #fail #how #learned

I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities. ↗

— George Strait

#actually #any #band #began #clubs