A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.
When I was young I was just about hard work. But as I got older I did experience anxiety doubt judgment and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.
Parents of recovered children and I've met hundreds all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
You see Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa and if we're honest conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
In these days it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
I respect faith but doubt is what gives you an education.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction ' we all knew.
Deep into that darkness peering long I stood there wondering fearing doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died I felt like I had lost a limb.
Though I am a Catholic a professing one I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.
Should I perchance still feel after my death I would no longer have any doubt but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
Life is doubt and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Prohibit the taking of omens and do away with superstitious doubts. Then until death itself comes no calamity need be feared.
My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally without any peradventure of doubt tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
When you make that crossover from life to real life when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt it takes some courage to face that.
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.