Quit not certainty for hope.


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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty
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If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time.
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DON HENLEY
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
ELIZABETH BIBESCO
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There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope.
SAMANTHA BRUCE-BENJAMIN
I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
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VACLAV HAVEL
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JOHANN K. LAVATER
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
ROBERT BURTON
I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certaint...
YEHUDA BERG
The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
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VACLAV HAVEL
The quest for absolute certainty is an immature, if not infantile, trait of thinking.
HERBERT FEIGL
Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
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Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more,...
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We really hope to see more people use our program. It's normal for a person to need help when they'r...
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A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
With certainty, I can predict that there will never be a cure to cancer. The only hope for any of us...
RICHARD DIAZ
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Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
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I love this team. They play hard and never quit battling. I hope they've made a name for themselves....
BILL SWAN
I have no talent for certainty.
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As the Chinese proverb goes, 'Real gold does not fear the test of fire.
CHIN-NING CHU
It is not the certainty of death that we fear but more so the certainty of fear that death brings.
EMANOUHL
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
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MATT TOMERLIN
What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I have to tell you, of all of Washington's strengths, his greatest strength was that he would not qu...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH
I know the guys are heartbroken that we lost. But these guys have not quit.
PERRY FLORIO
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
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ASPEN MATIS
In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing...
JOEL OSTEEN
Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
ANNE LAMOTT
It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb.
SPANISH PROVERB
There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of the heart. It is not the conviction that somethi...
VACLAV HAVEL
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends
CZECH PROVERB
For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. (Prover...
BIBLE
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him (Proverbs 26:12).
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VACLAV HAVEL
I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb, but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathe...
ERNEST SHAKLETON
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
VOLTAIRE
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd
VOLTAIRE
Success is at the point you want to quit. Quit not, make another effort to continue what you're tryi...
THE INSPIRATIONIST
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form f...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB
One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB
More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.
FRANCOIS GAUTIER
More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity
FRANCOIS GAUTIER
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JOSEPH ADDISON
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
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Quit your bitching if you're not pitching
REBECCA AGUILAR
It's an uphill battle. But we're not going to quit on (the players) and they won't quit on us.
DREW DANNER
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GARY F EVANS...
your faith and hope are in god.
BILLY GRAHAM
He told me, 'If you're not a thousand percent sure, don't quit,'
MIKE PIAZZA
You've got to give Iowa a lot of credit, being down and not quitting. I knew they wouldn't quit.
JEFF JUDKINS
You have to give them credit. South hung in there and did not quit when things were not going very w...
DAVE HUBERT
The key is certainty. Businesses need certainty on risks and costs.
JOE REAGAN
I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
May the hope in your heart, forever keep you happy.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
The gift of life is the greatest treasure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Never quit on your dream, but learn to cut your losses and quit your plan if it is not working.
KEN POIROT
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ANCIENT PROVERB
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
OLIN MILLER
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DR. JAMES C. DOBSON
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LEO BOOTH
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
TOM STOPPARD
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON, SR.
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness...
VACLAV HAVEL
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
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When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and...
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