Leona Helmsley Quotes

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

I have reservations about everything I do.

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

When in doubt, doubt the doubt!

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

People always want to doubt you.

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

I'm always doubtful. Everything I do is always doubtful. When you're trying to differentiate, there's going to be this gut sense, is this right? If you're not having doubt, then you're not pushing it hard enough, or you're not looking at the details close enough. You need to be feeling that doubt every single day.

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you’re timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

And trust dies from ifs and buts

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.

I have no talent for certainty.

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.