What We Believe Quotes

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.

I totally believe that I everything I choose, everything I set my dreams out to achieve I will achieve.

People who believe in ghosts think that dead people can walk through locked doors. Nonsense - they have to use a key like the rest of us.

I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.

If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.

We believe the super stock option will become a reality before the end of 2000, ... It's a good idea whose time has come.

We've been duped into believing we don't have 25 minutes to have something change our life. We don't have 2. You know, we're tweeting. We're running around. We're 15 words or less.

To really become motivated to succeed, people need to believe they can win.

You invest yourself in what you believe can succeed.

When you believe in people, you motivate them and release their potential.

Everybody can be somebody when somebody understands and believes in her.

Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.

Most people are not valued. Very few people have someone who believes in them. Very few have others love them unconditionally. Do these things intentionally every day.

If you embrace possibility thinking, your dreams will go from molehill to mountain size, and because you believe in possibilities, you put yourself in position to achieve them.

[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair.

When you believe what you know, you love.

Believe only what you know and all of what you know.

Let your heart believe only what nurtures you.

Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.

I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President.

If your team does not truly believe that you care about them, they will not follow you.

You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are.

It's not what I expected," he said. "They're far more organized than our intelligence had led us to believe.

I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines

I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.

Nerdighters make me believe in America again.

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

When you ask people, do they believe that we ought to have trade, I think people understand it's important.

I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

I do believe that the party needs to evolve, or I won't be a part of it.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.