Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Beliefs

Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American Writer, Aphorist

He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: “He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.”
Charles Spurgeon (1834–92) English Baptist Preacher

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can’t.
Laurence J. Peter (1919–90) Canadian-born American Educator, Author

A firm belief attracts facts. They come out iv’ holes in th’ ground an’ cracks in th’ wall to support belief, but they run away fr’m doubt.
Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936) American Author, Writer, Humorist

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–80) American Preacher, Poet

Too few have the courage of my convictions.
Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977) American Educator

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain and wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.
James Freeman Clarke (1810–88) American Unitarian Clergyman, Abolitionist, Author

Believe things, rather than man.
Benjamin Whichcote (1609–83) British Anglican Priest, Theologian, Philosopher

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

A big league baseball manager declares that he would have the public feel extremely doubtful early in the season regarding the chances of his team to win the championship. Cocksureness, he implies, could not fail to have a bad effect upon his players, whereas public skepticism acted upon them as a challenge. There is wisdom in this for business concerns. The man who is smugly confident that he has arrived is ripe for the return trip. A measure of self-confidence is an asset when you are battling your way to the top. But cocksureness is not an asset but a liability. It tends to dull the edge of effort. Also, it breeds arrogance that is distasteful.
B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with out own life.
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist

As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as we come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma, not only are the days of our liberty over, but we have lost the password that has hitherto opened to us the gates of success as well.
Learned Hand (1872–1961) American Judge, Judicial Philosopher

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, “What is truth?”
Richard Whately (1787–1863) English Philosopher, Theologian

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) American Educationalist

The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
Dero A. Saunders (1914–2002) American Journalist, Scholar

Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist

An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes.
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian Yoga Teacher

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–59) English Historian, Essayist, Philanthropist

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.
Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909–1966) Polish Aphorist, Poet

In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Remember that what you believe will depend very much upon what you are.
Noah Porter (1811–92) American Clergyman, Academic

A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar … but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American Baptist Minister

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton (c.1757–1804) American Federalist Politician, Statesman

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