65 Best Proof Quotes On Success In Life
These proof quotes will inspire you. Proof is something that shows that something else is true or correct or evidence or argument establishing or helping to establish a fact or the truth of a statement.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging proof quotes, proof sayings, and proof proverbs.
Famous Proof Quotes
- “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” ~ Khalil Gibran
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“Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.” ~ Maimonides
- “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.” ~ Stuart Chase
- “You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.” ~ Jean Paul
- “Weird heroes and mold-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ‘the rat race’ is not yet final.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson , Living proof quotes
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“The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn’t.” ~ India.Arie
- “Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.” ~ Rodney Dangerfield
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“If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary” ~ Mark Twain
- “All proofs rest on premises.” ~ Aristotle
- “The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.” ~ Muhammad Yunus
- “Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.” ~ Ayn Rand
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“To speak evil of anyone, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.” ~ George Washington
- “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep…” ~ Robert Frost
- “A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it’s because it’s proven.” ~ Jean Chretien
- “We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.” ~ George Henry Lewes
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“Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.” ~ Karen Thompson Walker
- “To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.” ~ Robert K. Merton
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“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.” ~ Paul Valery
- “We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” ~ Rick Cook
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“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” ~ George R. R. Martin
- “Have you ever felt love?
Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn’t exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science?” ~ Derrick Jensen - “Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.” ~ Louis Pasteur
- “It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. … Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.” ~ Seneca the Younger
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“It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.” ~ Walt Whitman
- “In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.” ~ John Stuart Mill
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“Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.” ~ John Calvin
- “It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.” ~ Samuel Johnson
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“Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.” ~ James Cook
- “Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it’s needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.” ~ Thales
- “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.” ~ Ignatius of Loyola
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“The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.” ~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- “My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.” ~ Plato
- “Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.” ~ Nhat Hanh
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“There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.” ~ William Sloane Coffin
- “Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer.” ~ Francis Schaeffer
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“By far the best proof is experience.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.” ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
- “Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.” ~ Ovid
- “There is only one proof of ability – action.” ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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“The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.” ~ Pope John Paul II
- “You do not need proof for what people want to believe.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “I believe in things that have proof.” ~ Callan McAuliffe
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“Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.” ~ Luc de Clapiers
- “Documents create a paper reality we call proof.” ~ Mason Cooley
- “O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?” ~ William Cowper
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“I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.” ~ Paula Deen
- “Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.” ~ Alan Dershowitz
- “I don’t think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn’t have exclusionary rules, we wouldn’t have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn’t have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There’s an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.” ~ Alan Dershowitz
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“I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.” ~ George Eliot
- “I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country’s past. Bring it back!” ~ Paul Engle
- “If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It’s something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.” ~ Robbie Fowler
