Facing Uncertainty Quotes

Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

Everyone is coming from a place of fear and my feeling is stop being so afraid. If something doesn't work then that's fine at least then you know it doesn't work. Don't worry so much about it not working, you can always fix that.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Faith is the flip side of fear.

It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.

Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

You read things, and they come to you, and if they speak to you at the moment and there's a voice in you that says, 'I don't know, that's risky,' or 'That's challenging,' then do it. Run at it and tackle it. And if it's bad, it's bad. You're gonna get over it.

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.