106 Unsure Quotes

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Famous Unsure Quotes

When we are not sure, we are alive. — Graham Greene

There is nothing certain, but the uncertain. — Proverbs

Indecision may or may not be my problem. - Jimmy Buffett

Indecision may or may not be my problem. — Jimmy Buffett

When you’re unsure, jump with your eyes closed and legs wide open — Yasmin Ahmad

The future is unwritten. — Joe Strummer

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. — Margaret Drabble

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. — Chinese Proverbs

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain." — Werner Heisenberg

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. - Robert Burns

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. — Robert Burns

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. — Pliny The Elder

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. — Ilya Prigogine

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. — Pliny The Elder

All is to be doubted. — Rene Descartes

The only certainty is that nothing is certain. — Pliny The Elder

There are three uncertainties: woman, wind, and wealth. — Indian Proverbs

Short Unsure Quotes

  • Whenever we are unsure how to act, we look to the group to guide our behavior. — James Clear
  • When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself. — Ann Landers
  • Don’t be pressured into making any decisions or signing any documents you’re unsure about. — Cliff Lerner
  • Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not. — James Joyce
  • I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school. — Aaron Tveit
  • You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will. — Simon Van Booy
  • Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure. — Maya Angelou
  • The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure. — J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure. — William Shakespeare
  • Harrison is genuinely unsure if he still has any fans. — Mark Lewisohn

Unsure Image Quotes

Feeling Unsure Quotes

Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love. — Marci Shimoff

You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time. — Louis C. K.

Every once a week, I get up and feel that I cannot act any more. I just get very unsure of myself. But, once I give my first shot, I'm back on track. Insecurity isn't bad, it makes me work harder. — Hrithik Roshan

Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. — Louis C. K.

I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged. — Connie Chung

What they're still unsure about, particularly some moderate Republicans, we know gender there is difference, I think Donald Trump has to seal the deal by letting people feel comfortable to vote for him. — John Brabender

When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure. — Tyler Blackburn

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation. — Francesca Marciano

The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex. — Louis Sachar

I've done some things I'm embarrassed about, and I like to tell people about them so that maybe they feel less embarrassed or alone when they do something they're unsure about. — Amy Schumer

Being Unsure Quotes

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning. — T. B. Joshua

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. — Bette Davis

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of. — Fred Hoyle

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure. — Christopher Hitchens

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. — Lee Child

So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure. — Steve Martin

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be. — William Sloane Coffin

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing. — Anthony Burgess

You in the West have a problem. You are unsure when you are being lied to, when you are being tricked. We do not suffer from this; and unlike you, we have acquired the skill of reading between the lines. — Zdenek Urbanak

Hit the ball pretty solid. Haven't played a lot of golf this year, so was really unsure of what it would be like. I've been playing pretty well lately, especially hitting the ball solid. — Trent Dilfer

Unsure Love Quotes

When you are unsure about the future, keep doing what is in front of you with all your heart and with love, and what is meant for you will find you. — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

People often are unsure whether or not they are in love, but they generally know whether or not they are having sex. — Mason Cooley

When you really love, that makes you feel unsure in your self, even though it is love that reaches your heart. — John de Ruiter

Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love? — Paullina Simons

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it — Jodi Picoult

They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on distant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for that matter as to whether I ever get my point across or my love — Saul Williams

Feeling Uncertain Quotes

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not. — Sean Lennon

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty. — Franz Kafka

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain. — Peter D. Mitchell

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you. — Saint Augustine

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. — Carl Jung

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. — Marshall McLuhan

The people that do understand how the brain works and how the chemicals are released in the brain when they feel uncomfortable, uncertain or doubtful they do it anyway. They overcome the biological and neurological releases by understanding what's causing them and moving forward anyway. — John Assaraf

You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track. — Albert Einstein

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd. — Livy

Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain. — Charlotte Beers

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More Unsure Quotes

Usually a very long list of securities is not a sign of the brilliant investor, but of one who is unsure of himself. — Philip Arthur Fisher

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery. — Nigel Farage

What are the most important qualities that make a successful entrepreneur? The ability to communicate. The ability to express your idea with certainty. That's how you become a leader-even if you are unsure, your ability to explain your vision and your direction is the attribute you need the most. ... Articulate your idea in 90 seconds or less. — Kevin O'Leary

If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid. — Robert Greene

Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. — Anna Wintour

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman

He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul. — Zhuangzi

Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever. — Aesop Rock

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes. — John Masefield

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are. — Barry Mann

It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering. — Jean-Pierre Melville

But sometimes stuff happens and we find ourselves lost, and suddenly we're standing in a place we don't recognize and can't remember walking-or falling-there, and we're unsure how to get back or if we even want to. — Jessica Sorensen

Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than routine, the fruit of which is a strained and unsure execution, a false diamond which dazzles semi-connoisseurs often more impressed by the accomplishments of the horse than the merit of the horseman. — Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. — Reinhold Niebuhr

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure. — Deborah Tannen

I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance. — William Shakespeare

If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change. — Dave Barry

What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. — William Shakespeare

Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease. — Sean Bean

The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure. — Scott Stapp

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me. — Tennessee Williams

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure. — Robert A. Cook

One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even in the White House. And you could say the same of Duterte in the Philippines and of Putin. They're parodies of masculinity. They're hyper-masculine, but they're also totally unsure of their masculinity, and they parade it around. — Stephen Marche

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