957 private quotes tagged faith

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” — Bruce Lee

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“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.” — Richard Feynman

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“The way to see by faith, is to shut the eye of reason.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.” — William Shakespeare

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“Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.” — Steve Jobs

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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller

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“Pray, and let God worry.” — Martin Luther

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“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.” — Herman Melville

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“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” — J. R. R. Tolkien

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“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.” — William Shakespeare

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“A man of courage is also full of faith.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.” — Samuel Butler

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“Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.” — Ben Stein

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“We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.” — Michelangelo

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“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.” — Alan Watts

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“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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