Doubters Quotes - Page 2

• Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer... Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers.

  Big K.R.I.T.

  Dreamer, Believer, Just A Dream

  FaceBook post by Big K.R.I.T. from Apr 22, 2014

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• The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Doubt, Belief, Believer

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• Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

  Erica Jong

  Self, Moments, Torture

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.143, Penguin

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• But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Lying

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• If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

  Gary McCord

  Fall, Law, Ideas

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• Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important and that his work well done is a part of an unending plan.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Faith, Men

  Telephone Remarks to a Group of Boy Scouts: "What it Means to Be a Boy Scout", July 25, 1924.

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• Fire the doubters out of your life.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fire

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• I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wisdom, Attitude, Taken

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei Masakazu (2015). “Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force”, p.5, Routledge

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• Doubters will doubt to the end.

  Stephen King

  Doubt, Ends

  Stephen King (2007). “The Mist”, p.119, Penguin

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• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Love, Atheist, Men

  Telephone Remarks to a Group of Boy Scouts: "What it Means to Be a Boy Scout", July 25, 1924.

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• I'm going to prove the haters and doubters wrong. I like when the doubters try to say that I'm (not still) elite or that I'm too old. I'll use that.

  Dwight Freeney

  Trying, Use, Prove

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• But to those who kept saying
  "It can't be done,"
  Never are the victories
  Or the honors won.
  But, rather,
  By the believing, doing kind,
  While the doubters
  Watched from far behind.

  Bruce Lee

  Believe, Honor, Victory

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.255, Tuttle Publishing

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• When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Roots, Tragedy, Done

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• You have to fight harder, dig deeper, and prove all the doubters wrongs.

  Carli Lloyd

  Fighting, Dig Deep, Harder

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• The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

  Os Guinness

  Hurt, Moving, Fall

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• Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

  Brenda Ueland

  Love You, Talking, Three

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• See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Ego, Consciousness

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• All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Performers, Persons, Secure

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.90, InterVarsity Press

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• The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

  Claude Bernard

  Believe, Science, Men

  Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt I, Ch. 2, Sect. VI

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• God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.159, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Light, Darkness, Believer

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• The doubters are always more blessed than the mere fellow travelers in faith. For they are the only ones who fully learn that their Lord is stronger than any doubt and any hell of despair.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Blessed, Doubt, Despair

  Helmut Thielicke, John W. Doberstein (1966). “Life Can Begin Again: Sermons on the Sermon on the Mount”, p.65, James Clarke & Co.

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• But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour, and his forgiveness, was meant for them all, and for all their sins. The mercy and love of God are at work even in the midst of his enemies. It is the same Jesus Christ, who of his grace calls us to follow him, and whose grace saves the murderer who mocks him on the cross in his last hour.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Prayer, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.34, SCM Press

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• The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Passion, Men, Littles

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

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