Top 100 I Believe Sayings
#1. Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.
Leston Havens
#2. I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
Siegfried Sassoon
#3. Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.
Bruce Springsteen
#4. I believe Islam was truly spread by example. So whatever good a Muslim does publicly will be seen - the same is true for the bad.
Cat Stevens
#5. I believe the most useful knowledge about human behavior is based on people's lived experiences.
Brene Brown
#6. I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved - which means no gun control.
John McCain
#7. I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.
Lois Lowry
#8. I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
Claire Messud
#9. Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
Mike Ditka
#10. I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.
Jay Weatherill
#11. I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin
#12. I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love.
Lynn Schusterman
#13. I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can.
Debby Ryan
#14. I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.
Marianne Williamson
#15. I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.
Dalai Lama
#16. I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
Samuel Butler
#17. My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life.
Mel Gibson
#18. If we use our religion to make us feel bigger, better, stronger than another, instead of secure enough to be one with each other, then I believe we've missed the point.
Charles F. Glassman
#19. I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.
Fran Lebowitz
#20. I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
Mark Strand
#21. Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.
Anthony Horowitz
#22. I believe that nothing passes without a trace and that each of our smallest steps has significance for the present and the future.
Anton Chekhov
#23. I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious, ad hoc magic.
Richard Dawkins
#24. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.
Roger Zelazny
#25. I believe in love - yes, I'm one of those girls. Most of my friends believe in love.
Selena Gomez
#26. Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.
Martin Seligman
#27. I believe that whether one believes in God or not is - it's very central to who I am.
Susan Jacoby
#28. But I am just a woman who thinks her duty is not to forget. And this duty, which I believe I must fulfill, is: "as a woman" living now I must repeat again and again "I am a woman," because we exist in an epoch still so ancient and ignorant and slow that there is still always the danger of gynocide.
Helene Cixous
#29. I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.
Bob Marley
#30. I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
Shashi Tharoor
#31. I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.
Condoleezza Rice
#32. I heartedly approve, in theory," said Ibelius, "but in practice I believe I shall ... absent myself.
Scott Lynch
#33. My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
#34. I believe in hope, in what is something called "radical hope." I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that's why I write fiction, probaby. It's my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r
John Green
#35. The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.
Mick Ebeling
#36. Launching Collins in the U.S. fulfills the original vision of the 1989 union of Harper & Row and William Collins. Publishing has clarified the many benefits of working as a global company. I believe that a true 21st century publisher is a global publisher. Harper Collins is well on its way.
David D. Friedman
#37. People normally view my work as fantasy, which on some level is true, but I do think that my work is more magical realist than fantasy. I believe in the fantasies within each of our realities, i.e., I portray very relatable human issues in a very realistic tone, yet in a magical setting.
Shahad Ameen
#38. I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.
Peter Criss
#39. I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
Karen Salmansohn
#40. So James refusing to sit down was a big deal. Unheard of. Like a black child suddenly saying in an English accent to its mama, "No, madam, I will not retrieve a switch so that you may beat me with it. I believe your request to be not only abusive, but also absurd.
Ernessa T. Carter
#41. I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.
Alanis Morissette
#42. Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe that when I feel happy, that's when I look beautiful ... I make a point of laughing out loud every single day.
Sui He
#43. Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.
Pete Rose
#44. I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.
Samuel Johnson
#45. I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself.
James McNerney
#46. I believe that behind every closed door there is an open space.
Ping Fu
#47. I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.
Lynn Swann
#48. I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.
Bill Hicks
#49. And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
Wole Soyinka
#50. There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone lolling about in an emotionally satisfying faith is repugnant to me. I believe that we are ultimately directed Godward but that this journey is often impeded by emotion
Flannery O'Connor
#51. I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.
Tony Kushner
#52. I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture.
Simon S. Tam
#53. I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
Barry Manilow
#54. I believe that it is important for us to understand the reason why the enemy attacks the womb because it is then that we will have a more accurate way to pray against it and overcome it.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#55. I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
E.W. Howe
#56. I'm going to live what I believe
Amy Grant
#57. I believe in 'business has a force for good.' You know, business has an impact on society. Of course, it creates jobs. It creates prosperity, but on the other hand, we also leave a negative footprint behind.
Jochen Zeitz
#58. I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
John Irving
#59. Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.
Dalai Lama
#60. I believe every woman's body is beautiful in its own way. I have never understood that just because a woman has thick thighs, she is considered fat. For so long, I've been around in the modeling world and have tried to break that barrier. But I think now it's turning around.
Coco Austin
#61. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles
Audrey Hepburn
#62. I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels.
Studs Terkel
#63. I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
Rachel Platten
#64. I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.
Mitchel Resnick
#65. I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.
Jimmy Carter
#66. My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
Mandy Patinkin
#67. I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
Rita Mae Brown
#68. I believe happiness is always there. That's why we have to keep looking for it. Because we can't always see it.
Because it doesn't always find us.
Lisa Mangum
#69. I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.
Joyce Meyer
#71. Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.
Charles Platt
#72. Strong views exist on both sides but I believe MPs voting for gay people being able to marry too, is a step forward for our country.
David Cameron
#73. Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
John Boehner
#74. The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
Ednita Nazario
#75. Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.
Bell Hooks
#76. I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.
Joe Biden
#77. I don't like to stop. I believe when you stop, you die.
Lil' Wayne
#78. I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.
Katherine Anne Porter
#79. It's because I do see sex as sacred and potentially spiritual that I believe in commercializing it and making this potentially holy experience more easily available to all.
Chester Brown
#80. I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
George Soros
#81. I believe that fact had been haunting Danny for all these years. But now he could change all that. He could right a wrong and rewrite history, for in his film not only he but also the entire cast of Taxi would be at Andy's funeral.
Bob Zmuda
#82. I believe in happiness. I'm just not sure love will actually get you there.
Katharine McGee
#83. I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.
Jeff Dunham
#84. I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality.
Dean Haglund
#85. As a veteran, I believe we have a responsibility to take care of all our men and women who have served - and I will fight to fix the crisis at the Veterans Administration caused by negligent leadership in Washington.
Joni Ernst
#86. I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.
Dave Chappelle
#88. I believe that feeling like a human, behaving like a human, responding like a human to others and to your surrounding environment is the key to living a fulfilled life in the city.
The School Of Life
#89. I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#90. I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
Anne Heche
#91. I believe ... this is my final word ... I believe that I'm supporting the Constitution of the United States which does not give the right for any individual to own a handgun ...
Jan Schakowsky
#92. It is often constructive to meet with a candidate for a particular office, but I believe what is most important is the candidate's track record.
Kenneth C. Griffin
#93. We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
John Astin
#94. The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.
Ariel Sharon
#95. It's pretty simple for me; I believe all people are created equal, regardless of their sexuality. To promote respect and acceptance is an important role for NFL players and the NFLPA.
Steve Gleason
#96. I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry ... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.
Stephen Fry
#97. I believe the tax on capital gains should be zero.
Mitt Romney
#98. Thousands of years ago, a Roman poet wrote, "I am a human being, therefore nothing human is foreign to me." I believe it to be true. So if this is possible for one human, it is possible for anyone. The path might be different, but the destination same.
Kamal Ravikant
#99. I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.
Ed Asner
#100. I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.
Tim Cook
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