“Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.”
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Scottish journalist, novelist 1824–1905Related quotes
“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”
“Astaire can't do anything bad.”
Jerome Kern quoted in Bordman, Gerald. Jerome Kern: His Life and Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. p. 142. (M).
Reported in “Masta Killa Says, 'Go Veg for Life'”, in peta2.com http://www.peta2.com/heroes/masta-killa-says-go-veg-for-life/. Also quoted in “Masta Killa Praised For Being Animal-friendly”, in contactmusic.net (25 January 2008) http://www.contactmusic.net/wu-tang-clan/news/masta-killa-praised-for-being-animal-friendly_1057451.
“The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.”
Attributed to Leo Tolstoy in Romance and Reality (1912) by Holbrook Jackson.
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“To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it…”
"On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking"
The Plain Speaker (1826)
“Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.”
Source: Blacklisted
“To do anything worthwhile, you will face periods of grinding doubt and fear.”
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