Believing Quotes

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

There is no greater level and form of belief than believing in yourself.

It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah.

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!