Samuel A. Nunn Quotes

I am very suspicious of people.

I'm always coming up against scepticism in my life.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

There is not a single human being that I trust!

Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

I couldn't really trust anyone. Not completely.

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.