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102 quotesNo great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Achievement
George Eliot
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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Fear
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Purpose
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Success
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
Eloquence
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When we say a woman is of a certain social class, we really mean her husband or father is.
Class
Zoe Fairbairns
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Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
Maturity
John Huston Finley
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
The future
Anatole France
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Certainty
Benjamin Franklin
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God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
Virtue
Benjamin Franklin
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Certainty
Benjamin Franklin
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There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.
Certainty
Fraude
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Neurosis
Sigmund Freud
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Creativity
Erich Fromm
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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
Tycoons
John Kenneth Galbraith
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Students
Allen Ginsberg
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Faults
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Purpose
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
Anger
St. Gregory The Great
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Accuracy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Leaders and Leadership
Theodore M. Hesburgh
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A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
Credulity
Thomas Hood
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Self-improvement
Aldous Huxley
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
Desire
William James
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Curiosity
Samuel Johnson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun