Top 100 Believes Quotes
#1. Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
Evan Davis
#2. Amelia the bright-sider believes it is better to be alone than to be with someone who doesn't share your sensibilities and interests.
Gabrielle Zevin
#3. No, I mean why are you here? You just happen to be at the same place I am? The girl who believes in coincidence always ends up dead, Devin.
Jocelyn Davies
#4. I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.
Charles M. Schwab
#5. It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.
Winston Churchill
#6. No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
William Beveridge
#7. A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms.
Judith Butler
#8. Our judgments, like our watches, none
go just alike, yet each believes his own
Alexander Pope
#9. Because he believes in me. He lets me take chances and learn from them. That's something a friend does.
A.G. Howard
#10. While I understand the mother believes what she is saying, I cannot believe the statement to be true for her young child. Hence the book.
May Saubier
#11. A lover fears all that he believes.
Ovid
#12. He would have thought God could make his own decisions, but Weston believes the creator may be pushed and coaxed and maybe bribed a little.
Hilary Mantel
#13. He knows a sweep of gratitude, soft as another voice, and so wide and deep he believes he might drown in it.
Jean Hegland
#14. A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.
John Fletcher
#15. She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.
Ayn Rand
#16. Some people can't believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.
Sean Maguire
#18. America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
Walter Dean Myers
#19. Though these all qualify as deceptions in Boswall's mind, they are not all necessarily bad. Boswall believes it's up to individual filmmakers to decide where to draw the line
but a warns that audiences might be surprised to know where filmmakers have been drawing it recently.
Chris Palmer
#20. Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.
Dora Russell
#21. If one had sufficient evidence to warrant belief in a particular claim, then one wouldn't believe the claim on the basis of faith. "Faith" is the word one uses when one does not have enough evidence to justify holding a belief, but when one just goes ahead and believes anyway.
Peter Boghossian
#22. I've always wished that there was someone I could talk to about them, just to now that it's not only me... Because sometimes, it's easier to think you are mad than to have no one that believes you.
Michelle Harrison
#23. I don't think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in honesty.
Susan Ford
#24. I remain as committed as ever to working across party lines with anyone who believes we must invest in the future of our economy by revitalizing our transportation infrastructure, ensuring every child is getting a world class education, and spurring research and development of new technologies.
Jim Himes
#25. Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.
Jessica Valenti
#26. A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
Mort Sahl
#27. He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
Red Auerbach
#28. I've dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.
Michael J. Fox
#29. A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#30. A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.
Ted Nugent
#31. I am not lazy.
I am on the amphetamine of the soul.
I am, each day,
typing out the God
my typewriter believes in.
Anne Sexton
#32. Every solider believes in war till the time he actually fights it.
Pushpa Rana
#33. Vice President Joe Biden believes that illegal immigrants are citizens. Obama believes that some Americans who join Islamist groups are citizens, while others are not. Who is an American? Whomever the executive branch deems an American. Who isn't? It depends on whether Obama ate his Wheaties or not.
Ben Shapiro
#34. Conscious you believes it without question. And not merely believes it but experiences it.
David Eagleman
#35. An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.
Bruce Lee
#36. A well-meaning man, Dhai Ma liked to say, is more dangerous because he believes in the rightness of what he does. Give me an honest rascal any day!
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#37. Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery, or elsewhere, as the heir.
Richard Jefferies
#38. Mitt Romney has made it clear that he believes that President Obama was born in the U.S.
John Sununu
#39. With the child already shame-based, the feeling of discouragement takes over the whole personality. As the shame-based child forms her primitive conscience, shame becomes immorality or neurotic guilt. The conforming child believes he can do nothing right,
John Bradshaw
#40. School choice is one of the strongest ways we have to educate our children, .. believes in school choice and he is going to work hard to enact school choice.
Ari Fleischer
#41. The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.
Jon Franklin
#42. Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.
Julian Baggini
#43. When trust is gone, a man no longer believes in humanity." ~Ty Callahan~
S.J.D. Peterson
#44. The negative principle negates. The positive principle creates. The negative principle doubts. The positive principle believes. The negative principle accepts defeat. The positive principle goes for victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
#45. 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.
Nancy Keenan
#46. It doesn't bother you, that everyone believes different things?" "Why should it?" he asked. "We all believe the same thing really, we simply give it different names. Hardly a crime." Lila
V.E Schwab
#47. Never trust a woman whose father calls her 'Princess'. Chances are she believes it.
Wes Smith
#48. We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#49. The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.
Ulysses S. Grant
#50. I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.
Kanye West
#51. Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas,
it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love;
as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.
Ovid
#52. Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.
Marina Sirtis
#53. Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!
Bill Walsh
#54. Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.
Rene Dubos
#55. Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#56. Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.
John Cleese
#57. Indian believes they ain't but two sins ... bein a coward ... and turnin agin yer own kind.
Forrest Carter
#58. There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.
Jasmine Guy
#59. Love overlooks a person's faults. That's not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.
Joel Osteen
#60. Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
J. Philippe Rushton
#61. The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student's course evaluations that win the day with administrators.
Michelle Grabner
#63. Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.
Louis Zamperini
#64. Lastly, anyone who believes in the possibility of total animal liberation while billions of humans continue to inhabit and decimate the planet is delusional. Only when most humans have died off will there be a chance to returning to a society that values all beings for who they are.
Jerry Vlasak
#65. In contrast, the a/theistic approach can be seen as a form of disbelieving what one believes, or rather, believing in God while remaining dubious concerning what one believes about God (a distinction that fundamentalism is unable to maintain).
Peter Rollins
#66. See, regardless of what anybody believes who hates me; you ain't gonna make or break me.
Eminem
#67. As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
Bob Schaffer
#68. The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people.
Dee Dee Myers
#69. The dream begins, most of the time,with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth
Dan Rather
#70. As you go down the path of life, ask whats true. Not who else believes it.
Bill Maher
#71. Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#72. The God I believe in believes in me and won't silence my heart or others based on a paycheck at the end of the day.
Shannon L. Alder
#73. If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . he will be surrounded by grandeur.
Henry David Thoreau
#74. Because I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you. I've often done it over contracts. And it's also a good thing to seem stupider than you are.
Agatha Christie
#75. By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
Larry Kramer
#76. There is no greater truth in determining one's philosophy as to the way they live their lives. This is an all-pervading, bull****-repellent way to understand what you or anyone else truly believes.
Chris Matakas
#77. The family believes that my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a horrible injustice. We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well.
Mark Felt
#78. Fear is a false prophet and believes that what it fears is actually coming to pass. At night every trifling occurrence seems more terrible to the besieged, for on account of the darkness no man tells what he sees but always what he hears.
Onasander
#79. A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
Herodotus
#80. When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies in the failed policies of the past, the same ones that put banks before people, Wall Street before Main Street, plunging us into recession and devastating the middle class.
Charlie Gonzalez
#81. Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.
David Nicholls
#82. I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21.
Monica Keena
#83. Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It's good she's in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her.
Geraldo Rivera
#84. I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
Harbhajan Singh
#85. Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
Elbert Hubbard
#86. I think, to me, I was always taught you never approach any character as a villain. Every human being on earth really believes that they're doing the best thing. We all have our rationalizations.
Alysia Reiner
#87. The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
R.C. Sproul
#88. [Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.
Jeffrey Rosen
#89. To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.
H.L. Mencken
#90. Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.
Francois Fenelon
#91. If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
Frank Herbert
#92. Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving ... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition.
Drew Barrymore
#93. The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
Luke Ford
#94. Grab the work when it comes, my man. Your competition is now a fourteen-year-old in pajamas with the username Truth-ninja-12 who believes fact-checking a story is reading his subject's Twitter feed. Be afraid.
Marisha Pessl
#95. There are many faiths, but the spirit is one - in me, and in you, and in him. So that if everyone believes himself, all will be united; everyone be himself and all will be as one.
Leo Tolstoy
#96. Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
Albert Einstein
#97. If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.
Dan Pearce
#98. In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.
Novak Djokovic
#99. Wayne Bennett believes in himself and his players, and he always will.
Darren Lockyer
#100. It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.
Robert McKee
