47 Quotes About Doubters

Finding truth is not always easy to find. Looking past your own perspective is just one way to filter through the noise. Here is a look at some of the best quotes about doubters that are encouraging to read.

“A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.”

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

“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.”

“An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.”

“Don’t listen to what people tell you, there are always doubters. Work hard, believe in yourself, and believe in your ability and just work hard.”

“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”

“Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.”

“Doubters don’t win, winners don’t doubt.”

“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.”

“For all the huffing and puffing of the doubters, a home of our own is still the rock on which our hopes are built. Price appreciation aside (and most houses will appreciate, eventually), homeownership is a state of mind.”

“Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.”

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

“Haters and doubters got me here, but supporters keep me here.”

“How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others.”

“I can’t wait to shock the doubters and prove I’m better and stronger than I was before.”

“I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That’s why I’m here.”

“I have a lot of doubters. I use that as motivation.”

“I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because ‘you aren’t going to make a living doing that.’ I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.”

“I really get motivated when I have doubters.”

“I still have goals. Seeing those doubters out there, it’s gonna be funny seeing them eat their words.”

“I’d like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.”

“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.”

“I’m a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I’ve never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.”

“In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it.”

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

“It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves.”

“It is the decisive people who have become civilized; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher skeptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.”

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

“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.”

“So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can’t be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes.”

“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”

“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.”

“The course was more plodding than heroic. I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.”

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

“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.”

“The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.”

“The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant.”

“The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used.”

“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work… THERE ARE NO LIMITS.”

“We won’t let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.”

“What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God’s place and become the controlling principle of life.”

“What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults.”

“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.”

“When there are doubters, it always fuels the fire a little bit. When people say you can’t do something, if you are a competitor, that drives you.”

“With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that are always a part of any creative action.”

“You have haters everywhere, you have doubters everywhere. Just keep it moving, do what you do, do the best you can possibly do, and just be appreciative as the where you are and where God has taken you to.”

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

Dealing with doubters and negative people in your life can have some dire consequences.