Battles - Quotes (Refer to post on Wars as well)

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Battles

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow. - Unknown

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

All of the significant battles are waged within the self. - Sheldon Kopp

At times our lives seem like that of a tranquil island in a sea of chaos. The battle is to keep this sea of chaos at bay and not let it wash us away into utter chaos. - Sanjeeva Ananthan

Avoiding a battle or a masterly retreat is in itself a victory. - Norman Vincent Peale

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. - Plato

Be selective in your battles, sometimes peace is better than being right. - Unknown

Choose your battles wisely because if you fight them all you’ll be too tired to win the really important ones. - Unknown

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. - Bernard Law Montgomery

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. - Sun Tzu

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. - George Bernard Shaw

In the end, we do battle only with ourselves. Once we understand this and focus our energy on what we can do to control our lives . . . we begin to gain important insights into how life works. - H. Stanley Judd

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol

Sometimes, the hardest battle is against yourself. - Unknown

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at. - Jesse Owens

The battle you are going through is not fuelled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance. - Shannon L. Alder

The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul. - David McKay

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. - M. Scott Peck

With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer, fight the daily battle without fear. - Unknown

You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought. - John Greenleaf Whittier

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Margaret Thatcher

You only have so much emotional energy each day. Don’t fight battles that don’t matter. - Joel Osteen

Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago. - Neal Maxwell

Beach - Quotes

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. - Pam Shaw

At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun. - Unknown

Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought. - Helen Keller

I have always loved the beach. The smell of the salty water, the wind in my face, the gentle roar of the waves all combine to create a sense of peace and calm. - Unknown

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. - Kahlil Gibran

It’s hard for me to put into words why I like the beach so much. Everything about it is renewing for me, almost like therapy…Beach Therapy. -  Amy Dykens

On the beach, you can live in bliss. - Dennis Wilson

Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone. - Unknown

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. - Isak Dinesen

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. - Wyland

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. - Kate Chopin

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. - John Kenneth Galbraith

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. - Robert Henri

Beauty - Quotes

A beautiful face fires our imagination, and we see higher virtue and intelligence in it than we can detect in its owner's head or heart when we descend to calm inspection. - Charles Reade

A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman. - Louisa May Alcott

A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. - Johann von Goethe

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; but regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka

Anyone who takes the time to be kind is beautiful. - Unknown 

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. - Toni Morrison

Be your own kind of beautiful. - Unknown

Beautiful peaches are not always the best flavoured; neither are handsome women the most amiable. - William Scott Downey

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful. - Unknown

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. - Alexander Pope

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. - George Santayana  

Beauty awakens the soul to act. - Dante Alighieri

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, and profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, and chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it. - Roger Scruton

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. - John Ruskin

Beauty fades eventually, but a kind soul remains forever. - Carla

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. - Sigmund Freud

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them. - David Hume

Beauty in woman is that potent alchemy which transforms men into asses. - Abraham Miller

Beauty is a curse on the world. It keeps us from seeing who the real monsters are. - The carver

Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls. - Plato

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - Unknown

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is only skin deep. - Sir Thomas Overbury

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. - John Ray

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. - Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It’s about having a pretty mind, a kind heart, and most importantly, a beautiful soul. - Unknown 

Beauty itself soon fades, and when a woman has beauty and nothing else, well, it's like putting all the goods in the shop window, isn't it? And the moment she loses her good looks – poor creature! What is she? Just a mere bit of faded finery to be thrown aside. - Henry Arthur Jones

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. - Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. - Joseph Addison

Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best. - Phineas Fletcher

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed are those who see beautiful things in humble places where others see nothing. - Camille Pissaro

Call me crazy, but I've always been a firm believer that beauty is on the inside. - Lois Lane

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. - Adlai E. Stevenson

Do not dissect a rainbow. In other words, do not destroy a beautiful phenomenon by over analysing it. - Denise LaFrance

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. - Luis Cernuda

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. - Confucius

For one to admire a woman merely for her beauty, is to love the building for its exterior; but to love one for the greatness of her soul, is to appreciate the tenement for its intrinsic value. - William Scott Downey

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. - Joseph Addison

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. - John Constable

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world any more. There is always something to make you wonder, in the shape of a leaf, the trembling of a tree. - Albert Schweitzer

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it. - Amelie Nothomb

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. - Frank Lloyd

If you look closely, all of nature has its beauty. - Vincent van Gogh

In spite of all, some shape of beauty moves away the pall from our dark spirits. - John Keats

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. - Anne Bronte

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them. - Christian Nestell Bovee

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty. - Henry Ward Beecher

It’s not the beauty of someone that you fall in love with, it’s the beauty within them. - Rebecca

Judge nothing by the appearance. The more beautiful the serpent, the more fatal its sting. - William Scott Downey

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind. - Dean Koontz

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. - Eleanor Roosevelt

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain. - Rick Remender

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. - Arthur Erickson

People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith. Somehow, we feel such things should be kept for our exalted moments, and not paraded in company, or allowed to spill out over dinner. - Roger Scruton

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. - Aristotle

Pretty is as pretty does. - Unknown

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. - Petrarch

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. - Laetitia Casta

Search for a beautiful heart, not a beautiful face. Beautiful things are not always good, but good things are always beautiful. - Buddhist Quote

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself. - Berenice Abbott

Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty. - Carlos

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. - Ninon de L'Enclos

The beautiful is always bizarre. – Charles Baudelaire

The beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit. - Thomas Hardy

The beauty does not live out there; the beauty's in my eyes. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details. - Natalie Angier

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. - Francis Bacon

The fairest cheek hath oftentimes a soul leprous as sin itself. - Thomas Dekker

The kind of beauty I want is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity. - Ruby Dee

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The more beautiful the serpent, the more fatal its sting. - William Scott Downey

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. - Louisa May Alcott

The sign of a beautiful person is they always see beauty in others. - Omar Suleiman

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty. - Fluke Greville

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. - Unknown

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. - John Kenneth Galbraith

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists. - Austin O’Malley

There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion. - Edgar Allan Poe

There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others. - Mandy Hale

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. - Joseph Addison

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart. - Cynthia Hand

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the essence of beauty – the possession of a quality which excites the human organism to functioning harmonious with its own nature. - Ethel Puffer Howes

Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. - Rachel Carson

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

To have beauty is to have only that. But to have goodness is to be beautiful too. - Unknown

To look at a thing is quite different from seeing a thing, and one does not see anything until one sees its beauty. - Miss Mabel Chiltern

To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your won skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are. - Ellen Degeneres

To see beauty is to be intimate with Divinity. - Unknown

To the attentive eye each moment of the year has its own beauty and in the same field it beholds every hour a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. - Maya Angelou

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful. - Scott Westerfeld

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. - Marcus Aurelius

When you seek beauty in all people and all things, you will not only find it you will become it. - Unknown

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. - Anouk Aimee

Begin - Quotes

A bad beginning makes a bad ending. - Euripides

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. - Frank Herbert

A hard beginning maketh a good ending. - John Heywood

All glory comes from daring to begin. Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. - Unknown

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door. - Albert Camus

All great men had simple beginnings. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. - Lewis Carroll

Begin by doing what is necessary then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Unknown

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like a snowflake. - Marie Beyon Ray

Beginning is easy; continuing, hard. - Japanese Proverb

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. - William James

Begin with the end in mind. - Stephen Covey

Begin, and you are halfway there. - Alfred Montapert

Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest. - Unknown

Each day is a new beginning. - Michael Duff Newton

Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember. So many fail because they don’t get started. They don’t begin. - Ben Stein

Every beginning is a consequence – every beginning ends something. - Paul Valery

Every moment is a fresh beginning. - T. S. Eliot

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - Pope Paul VI

Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive. - Robert Anthony

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. - Publilius Syrus

In my beginning is my end. - T. S Eliot

It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom. - Mahatma Gandhi

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.  - Leonardo da Vinci

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. - Lao Tzu

New beginnings start with new hopes – new dreams – new faith in all things. - Unknown

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. - Unknown

That which has a beginning will surely have an end.  - Joseph Smith 

The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless. - Jose Saramago

The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Unknown

The beginning is the promise of the end. - Henry Ward Beecher

The birth of all things is weak and tender; and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings. - Michael de Montaigne

The first beginnings are generally crude. - Edward Counsel

The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye. - Lucretius

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Confucius

There are always twenty excellent reason for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything – especially if it has never been done before. - Prince Philip

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Louis L’Amour

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own while yet the shaft is whistling. - George Eliot

Things are always at their best in their beginning. - Pascal

To begin, begin. - Peter Nivio Zarlenga

We will not know unless we begin. - Howard Zinn

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men. - Noruin G. McGranahan

Beliefs / Believes - Quotes

A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind. - Elly Roselle

A belief is not true because it is useful. - Henri Frederic Amiel

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. - Jose Bergamin

A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence. - David Hume

As a man believes, so he will act. - Sam Harris

At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. - Lao Tzu

Belief gets in the way of learning. - Robert Heinlein

Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. - Denis Waitley

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. - Samuel Butler

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. - J. M. Coetzee

Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws. - James Siegel

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. - Anthony Robbins

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution. - Richard Dawkins

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. - Charles F. Kettering

Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas. - Ray Bradbury

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. - Christian D. Larson

Believe in yourself and you will not only take off, you will fly. - Unknown

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

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution. - David Joseph Schwartz

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. - William Penn

Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see. - Unknown

Believe that your life is worth living and your beliefs will help create the fact. - Unknown

Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt

Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous - Abraham Lincoln

Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe. - Frank Herbert

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Do not believe hastily. - Ovid

Do not ever quit believing in yourself. As long as you believe you can, you will have reason for trying. - Unknown

Don’t believe everything you hear. - Aesop

Don’t believe everything you hear. There are always three sides to a story – yours, theirs, and the truth. - UnknownEvery man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. - Seneca

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. - Jean de La Bruyere

Everything possible to be believ’d is an image of truth. - William Blake

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment. - Richard Dawkins

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible. - Stuart Chase

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes. - Francis Bacon

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. - Thomas Fuller

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head, or a very short creed. - Charles Caleb Colton

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. - Berthold Auerbach

He who believes needs no explanation. - Euripides 

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. - Leo Rosten

I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should be malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant. - Rufus

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. - Bertrand Russell

If we can once believe that success is possible, success becomes possible. - Frank Chapman

If you don’t have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon. - Alfred Montapert

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe. - Laurell K. Hamilton

If you want to know what your true beliefs are, take a look at your actions. - Robert Anthony

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal. - Samuel R. Delany

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. - Kenichi Ohmae

It is not what you believe, but why you believe it! - Unknown

It is okay to stand firm in your beliefs; just do not impose them on others who may be equally resolute in theirs. - Unknown

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. - Robert Heinlein

It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe. - Gail Devers

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. - Muhammad Ali

It’s what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are. - Unknown

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. - Gail Devers

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. - Oscar Wilde

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good ground for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. - Bertrand Russell

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he becomes. - Bhagavad Gita

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. - Mahatma Gandhi

Many people have died for their beliefs. The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe. - Christopher Paolini

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief. - Baltasar Gracian

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand. - Michel Montaigne

Men freely believes that which they desire. - Caesar

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. - Julius Caesar

Men that believe only what they understand can write their creed on a postage stamp. - Austin O’Malley

Most people are too slow to believe, but once you get them going, they believe too much. - Lewis F. Korns

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. - H. L. Mencken

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. - Michel de Montaigne

Oftimes our belief, if in another, we would regard a superstition. - Lewis F. Korns

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. - John Stuart Mill

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture. - William James

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we will be. - Anthony Robbins

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. - Paul Valéry

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. - Max Born

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favour of its truth. - Bertrand Russell

The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe. - Claude Bernard

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. - Lillian Smith

The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds. - Dean Koontz

The less you know the more you believe. - U2

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. - Roy L. Smith

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. - George Bernard Shaw

The more a man dreams, the less he believes. - H. L. Mencken

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. - H. L. Mencken

The thing you really believe in always happens. And the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand. - John Lubbock

There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs. - Anthony Robbins

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death. - Isaac Asimov

There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. - Frank A. Clark

They conquer who believe they can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe. - Ivan Panin

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. - Henri Poincare

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. - Louisa May Alcott

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. - Ovid

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions. - Sydney J. Harries

We may not respect all the beliefs of others, but we should respect their right of having them. - Validivar

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. - Gene Wolfe

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. - George Bernard Shaw

What ardently we wish, we soon believe. - Edward Young

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us. - Orison Swett Marden

What you believe will depend very much on what you are. - Noah Porter

Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us. - Susan L. Taylor

Whatever you do, you must remain nimble in your thinking. Do not become so attached to any one belief that you cannot see past it to another possibility. - Christopher Paolini

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty. - Isaac Asimov

Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about. - Robert Anthony

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it. - Dr. Robert Anthony

You’ve got to believe in possibilities. You’ve got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. And here’s the big one. Believe in yourself. - Unknown

Your belief don’t make you a better person, your behaviour does. - Unknown

Benevolence - Quotes

Benevolence is a world of itself – a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior. - Horace Mann

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. - C. S. Lewis

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it. - Hosea Ballou

The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous. - Maria Edgeworth

Betrayal - Quotes

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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. - Johann Caspar Lavater

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself. - Aesop

Betrayal does that – betrays the betrayer. - Erica Jong

Each betrayal begins with trust. - Phish

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation. - Joseph Conrad

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall. - Robert Graves

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal. - Tennessee Williams

When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed. - Stefan Zweig

Birds - Quotes

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. - Lou Holtz

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - Latin Proverb

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. - Alejandro Jodorowsky

Birds of a feather will gather together. - Robert Burton

Birds of fine plumage are not the best songsters; neither are comely women the most virtuous. - William Scott Downey  

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. - Charles Lindbergh

Each bird must sing with his own throat. - Henrik Ibsen

Fine feathers make fine birds. - Unknown

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.  - Miguel de Cervantes

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake 

The early bird catches the worm. - William Camden 

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds. - Kirby Larson

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. - Robert Wilson Lynd

Tie two birds together and although they have four wings, they cannot fly. - Unknown

Blame - Quotes

A bad workman always blames his tools. - English Proverb

A person who blames others has not begun their lesson. A person who blames themselves has begun their lesson. A person who blames no one has finished their lesson. - Unknown

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy. - Wayne Dyer

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. - Douglas Coupland

Blame is not productive. Blame disguises and conceals. Blame alienates and separates. Blame is the killer of community, cooperation, and collaboration. - Peter Rouse

Blame is responsibility's arch-enemy. - Charles Stuart Platkin

Blame is the number one recipe for disaster in your home! You will not heal if you leave that word in your vocabulary. - Patrick T. Gorman

Blame is yet another way to refuse the truth looming large right in front of us. - Jeffrey Gardere

Blame the mirror if your face is ugly. - Chinese Proverb

Blameless people are always the most exasperating. - George Eliot

Don’t blame people for disappointing you. Blame yourself for expecting too much. - Unknown

He who blame others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived. - Chinese Proverb

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. - Erica Jong

I know I mustn’t blame anyone but sometimes it feels better to point a finger to someone else. - Unknown

It is easier to blame than do better. - German Proverb

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes. - Leo Tolstoy

Keep alive the light of justice, and much that men say in blame will pass you by. - Euripides

Never blame anyone in your Life. Good people give you Happiness. Bad people give you Experience. Worst people give you a Lesson, and Best people give you memories. - Unknown

Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike. - Lou Krieger 

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one – themselves. - Robert Collier

Sinful heart blames. - Toba Beta

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others. - Tyron Edwards

Success is never blamed. - Thomas Fuller

The absent always bear the blame. - Dutch Proverb

The cultured man always blames others; the semi-cultured man blames himself and the fully-cultured man blames neither. - Unknown

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong. - Scott Adams

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The search for someone to blame is always successful. - Robert Half

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. - Oscar Wilde

There's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. - George Eliot

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. - Hubert Humphrey

We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. - Glen Duncan

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed. - Unknown

You can’t blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity. - Bill Clinton

You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you. - Paolo Bacigalupi

You’ll never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now. - Unknown

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. - Joseph Campbell