“Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.” GivingCareDarkBreakDoubtDespairGiving UpSpellsLoadWiserNever Giving UpFlingFetters Book:Poetical works Source: Poetical works
“Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.” FirstsBookMomentsSeemsPastGrowsBreakDoubtImpossibleGoes OnAccomplishedDiscouragedBeginnersNew Books Book:Force of Circumstance: Hard times Source: Force of Circumstance: Hard times
“A bending staff I would not break, A feeble faith I would not shake, Nor even rashly pluck away The error which some truth may stay, Whose loss might leave the soul without A shield against the shafts of doubt.” MaySoulMightFaithLossBreakDoubtErrorsShakesStaffShieldsPluckBending Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of their liberties; not to oppress an individual or a few, but to break down the fences of a free constitution, and deprive the people at large of all share in the government, and all the checks by which it is limited.” PeopleLittlesGovernmentIndividualLibertyBreakDoubtPlansShareRevolutionConstitutionChecksResistanceOppressionInstanceJealousSensibleRulersFenceBreaking DownJealous People Author:John Adams
“No doubt there is a Scandinavian wave. I guess everybody is just surfing their wave until it breaks and hoping it won't be too soon.” BreakDoubtWaveNo DoubtSurfingScandinavians Author:Tobias Lindholm
“Without a doubt, because now in the music business talent and hard work isn't enough. There is just a lot of luck and marketing money involved in making any artist break. "Fall Down" is about a relationship, but you could certainly apply it to the relationship we've had with each other and throughout our career.” HardEnoughArtistFallCareersBreakDoubtTalentHard WorkInvolvedLuckMarketingFalling DownMusic BusinessTalent And Hard Work Author:Jason C. Miller
“I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.” IfsThinkingMenHardChoicesLove IsQualityBreakDoubtDangerGainsAdvantagePunishmentObligationLiarsLinksFearfulDreadGreedyRottenUngratefulFickleDeceiver Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“Eros doomed! I doubt it...eros seems to drive most relationships, and not just those between lovers. Erotic energy is a big powerful force, it shakes things up, causes people to break the rules, makes people do crazy things! Reason doesn't stand a chance in its face.” PeopleReasonBigsSeemsFacesEnergyForceCausesChancePowerfulBreakDoubtCrazyLoversShakesDoomedEroticErosCrazy Things Author:Micheline Aharonian Marcom
“The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually finish. That's how easy it is to clamber up the ladder to the second echelon. Write. And finish what you write. That's how you break away from the pack and leave the rest of the sickly herd for the hungry wolves of shame and self-doubt. And for all I know, actual wolves.” KnowsWayWritingSelfEasyBreakDoubtMassShameHungryPacksLaddersHerdsSelf-doubtAspiring Writers Author:Chuck Wendig