Believes Quotes

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing.

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.

But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Man is what he believes.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.