Belief Quotes

"A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother."

- Proverbs 10:1 (NIV)

""My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.""

- Michael Jordan

"Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being."

- Rabbi Morris Joseph

"Fighting is the best thing a man can have in his soul."

- Renzo Gracie

""To believe in the heroic makes heroes.""

- Gunnar Nelson

"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times."

- Ovid

"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish."

- Tony Robbins

"हम जो कुछ भी है वह हमने आज तक क्या सोचा इस बात का परिणाम है यदि कोई व्यक्ति बुरी सोच के साथ बिताया काम करता है तो उसे कष्ट ही मिलता है यदि कोई व्यक्ति शुद्ध विचारों के साथ बोलता है या काम करता है तो उसकी परछाई की तरह खुशियों उसका साथ कभी नहीं छोड़ती ।"

- भगवान गौतम बुद्ध

"A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you."

- Ramsey Clark

"We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man…is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

- Thomas Paine

"They that give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State.... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."

- George Carlin

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."

- Aesop

"Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind."

- Munia Khan

"Human rights stand upon a common basis; and by all reason that they are supported, maintained, and defended for all the human family. The essential characteristics of humanity are everywhere the same."

- Frederick Douglass

"In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful."

- John Marshall Harlan

"Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege."

- Christopher Hill

"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

"Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings."

- Robert M. Hutchins

"The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens."

- Andrew Johnson, 1865

"As I would not be a slave, so would I not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

- Abraham Lincoln, 1858

"We are as great as our belief in human liberty—no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves."

- Archibald MacLeish

"The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race and ancestry. A good American is one who is loyal to this country and to our creed of liberty and democracy."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Let us never forget that our constitutions of government are solemn instruments, addressed to the common sense of the people and designed to fix and perpetuate their rights and their liberties."

- Joseph Story

"Democracy’s ceremonial, its feast, its great function, is the election."

- H.G. Wells

""A son's journey begins with his mother's faith in him.""

"Because I said so!"