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Quotes about Uncertainty

Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you've stopped moving forward, and at that point, God will step in and pull the rug out from under your feet, because that is His way of controlling His chosen ones, by making sure they always follow their appointed path to the end. If, for any reason, we stop, whether out of complacency, laziness, or out of a mistaken belief that we know enough, He forces us on.
— Paulo Coelho
The Gods throw the dice,and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.They don't care if when you go,you leave behind a lover,a home, a career or a dream.The Gods don't care whether you have it all,whether your every desire can be met through hardwork and persistence.The Gods don't want to know about your plans and hopes.Somewhere they're throwing the dice and you get chosen.From then on,winning and losing is only a question of luck.
— Paulo Coelho
I'm afraid of committing myself," she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
— Paulo Coelho
Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it
— Paulo Coelho
No one could make a choice without feeling afraid. That's was the law of life..and no one could escape.
— Paulo Coelho
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
— Oscar Wilde
All things lie dark in possibility.
— William Saroyan
In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.
— Hippocrates
God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.
— Jerry Bridges
Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.
— Niki Lauda
It's a dangerous business, going out your door.
— JRR Tolkien
There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.
— John Updike