You can forecast, plan, and try to massage events in your favor, but as you know, the world often serves up other outcomes — outcomes that aren’t always what you want.
Or it can offer you an opportunity to grow and learn to bend easily with the hands of fate.
Sometimes fate presents us with something far better than we planned for ourselves.
If you’re feeling uncertain about life right now, these quotes about uncertainty will remind you that you don’t need to fear what you can’t control.
21 Uncertainty Quotes to Help You Embrace the Unknown
There’s no question that it’s challenging to face the future when so many things aren’t in your control. The “what ifs” can make you crazy and keep you in a constant state of agitation.
But instead of resisting uncertainty, lean into it. Embrace the adventure of not knowing. That’s where these quotes about being unsure can support you.
“If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty or back to pain and regret.” – Jim Carrey
“Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.” — Mandy Hale
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
“Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.” – Charlie Sheen
“True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity — in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.” — Oliver Burkeman
“If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.” — Eckhart Tolle
“Leave everything undefined, including yourself. Befriend uncertainty. Fall in love with mystery. Kneel at the altar of Not Knowing. Give your questions time to breathe. And the answers will find you.” — Jeff Foster
“Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.” – Jacob Bronowski
“If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” — Bob Gof
“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.” – Blaise Pascal
“I am learning to trust the journey even when I do not understand it.” — Mila Bron
“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.” – John Allen Paulos
“Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair supports not thee.” – David Mallet
“Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.” – Andy Stanley
“I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.” — Shekhar Kapur
“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” – Andre Gide
“For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.” – Barbara Jordan
“Uncertainty is a very good thing: it’s the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.” – Tim Crouch
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.” ~R. I. Fitzhenry
“For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars, makes me dream.” ~Vincent Van Gogh
Go back and read through these quotes on uncertainty one more time. Choose one that inspires you or motivates you to move forward despite your lack of control.
Write down the quote and post it where you can see it every day. Let it open your heart and mind to the adventure of life.
