What We Believe Quotes

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

To believe is human to doubt is divine.

I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way.

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing but a thought.

You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market.

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.

I think if you truly believe that something should be that way then you should push for that.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

I've found that if ultimately, if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.

Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling. "That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!

Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

Can you believe that? A female linesman. Women don't know the offside rule.

I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.

What you do is proof of what you believe.

If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that's fine by me, believe away.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.

Those who believe they can move mountains, do!

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.