Top 100 I Believed Quotes
#1. Another vindication I had is the fact that I believed the Christian message and the gospel of the kingdom is good enough to fix the world's problems
Sunday Adelaja
#2. The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
Rain
#3. And it was the first time that I believed the claim that you can help a person more by asking them the right question than by giving them the answer.
Amy Hempel
#4. In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. The conversation went on and on, and when
we were finally through it was too late to return to New York.
Margaret Sanger
#5. There was a time in childhood when I didn't yet know I was ugly. Then there was a time when I believed as girls do - and as Batta was always telling m - that I could make it more tolerable by this or that done to my clothes or my hair. Now, I chose to be veiled.
C.S. Lewis
#6. When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.
Daphne Oz
#7. I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#8. I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
Lech Walesa
#9. I believed in your love till the time I actually made it, felt like sex.
Pushpa Rana
#10. I was able to fly when I believed. If you believe you can do anything, right?
Shiro Amano
#11. I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.
Lech Walesa
#12. Lucas, I hired you because you're brilliant." I believed him. I smiled. "It's true. I am.
N.R. Walker
#13. [ ... ] I believed words still had power when they are said by the right people.
Bob Goff
#14. I was casting everything I had done, everything I believed, everything I had chosen - everything I was - against the will of an ancient being of darkness, terror, and malice, a fundamental power of the world. And the bonds and the will of Mother Winter could not constrain me.
Jim Butcher
#15. I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.
Paul Von Hindenburg
#16. Someday, I'm going to discover all the secrets of the universe.'
That made me smile. 'What are you going to do with all those secrets, Dante?'
'I know what I'll do with them,' he said. 'Maybe change the world.
I believed him.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#17. I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!
J. California Cooper
#18. Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk.
Neil Gaiman
#19. I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.
Maya Rudolph
#20. I believed myself to be ready then; now, with the hindsight brought by greater age, I see myself for the naive and inexperienced young woman I was. We all begin in such a manner, though. There is no quick route to experience.
Marie Brennan
#21. I'm broken, I have cut myself wide open. I can see my heart and it is not what I believed it was, it is not good and kind and all the things I have always thought I am.
Elizabeth Scott
#22. I believed that I was alone in my struggle and that my battle was one of survival. By
Dave Pelzer
#23. I started sfCiti because I believed that technology companies needed to take a 'One City' approach and build a shared sense of community and civic responsibility in San Francisco.
Ron Conway
#24. When first I saw Isidore, I believed he would help me to enjoy it I believed he would be content with my being a pretty girl; and that we should meet and part and flutter about like two butterflies, and be happy
Charlotte Bronte
#25. There is a tension in the Bible between justice and mercy, between the Old Testament and the New Testament. And the New Testament says you can never be good enough: goodness is the thing, and you can never live up to it. The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.
Paul Kalanithi
#26. I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement.
Michael Gove
#27. I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.
John Legend
#28. I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
#29. I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you didn't believe that truck was bearing down on you, there is a certain point where I tackle you. And this is more important than that.
Penn Jillette
#30. That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.
Andre Dubus
#31. If I took a month off, I was likely to be replaced by one of the other, say, two hundred freelancers vying to get my assignments. If I took six months off to have a baby, I believed I would be written off by my editors. I was in a man's profession.
Lynsey Addario
#32. I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.
Martin McGuinness
#33. It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#34. When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.
Mary Szybist
#35. I always thought of myself as being the unluckiest girl I knew. I was, I believed, a 'jinx' and I was 'jinxed', or so I thought!
Stephen Richards
#36. The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end.
Ernest Hemingway,
#38. You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
Yanni
#39. Papa said scientists speculated that from the moon, the earth looked blue. That night I believed it. I would draw it blue and heavy with tears.
Ruta Sepetys
#40. I-I know you think me a monster, and maybe I am, b-but please never doubt how much I believed in you. Everything I did was for you. Yes, I did it all for you! I would live and die for you. Over and over if I had to. I was never your enemy.
Giselle Simlett
#41. If I believed the stories I learned growing up, God made the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested. I wonder if, like me, the eighth day was when he watched it all begin to unravel.
Cora Carmack
#42. The masterstroke of male fraternity, I believed, was the practice of never speaking of anything remotely personal or related to one's emotions. That way, no one is ever made uncomfortable. Any such awkward moments can always be dispelled with a flurry of pretend-punches.
Lynn Coady
#43. When I was a kid, I believed in Santa Claus. But it was very tough because in the Dominican ... there are not a lot of rich people there.
Alfonso Soriano
#44. If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.
Jim Woodring
#45. I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.
Jimmy Carter
#46. Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to me.
D.G. Kaye
#47. I believed that, if I put a chocolate on the market that was better than anyone else was making, or was likely to make, and keep it absolutely uniform in quality, the time would come when the public would appreciate it and buy it.
Milton S. Hershey
#48. Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.
Shia Labeouf
#49. I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.
Jesse Ventura
#50. I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.
Victoria Woodhull
#51. Many people have talked to me about God in the middle of difficulties, and after listening to them, I have been struck that, if I believed in the "God" they described, I wouldn't run to him for help either, and I'd be in a panic
Paul David Tripp
#52. If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.
Timothy Keller
#53. I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
Barry Zito
#54. When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.
Roman Payne
#56. I believed if word got out about grace, the whole church was going to turn into a brothel.
Donald Miller
#57. If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
Alice Sebold
#58. When I believed my thoughts I suffered.
Byron Katie
#59. It was a summer I would never, ever forget. It was the summer everything began. It was the summer I turned pretty. Because for the first time, I felt it. Pretty, I mean. Every summer up to this one, I believed it'd be different. Life would be different. And that summer, it finally was.
Jenny Han
#60. For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.
Christiaan Rudolf De Wet
#61. I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down but more powerful idea of what is, or could be photographic.
Lewis Baltz
#62. Finally I looked to the cold, white sky and prayed to a God I wasn't sure I believed in to heal the girl I loved.
C. Desir
#63. I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
Cynthia Ozick
#64. -The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.
Nora Roberts
#65. An arena where, so Merewalh's priest told me, Christians had been fed to wild beasts. Some things are just too good to be true and so I was not sure I believed him.
Bernard Cornwell
#66. Once I believed that sooner or later I would come across a really wise person; today I couldn't even say what wisdom is.
Fausto Cercignani
#67. I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.
Lynsey Addario
#68. Performing was easy because I believed that I could sing, but that was an outside thing.
Gloria Gaynor
#69. When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.
David Brock
#70. Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.
Mariah Carey
#71. I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.
Paula McLain
#72. I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.
Michael Gove
#73. Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.
Brandy Norwood
#74. Need you Gwen, like I need air. This life is fucked, it ain't what you deserve, but I am going to clean this shit up now. It will never touch you again." His voice was firm, resolved and I believed him.
Anne Malcom
#75. Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone.
And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him.
The shame is overwhelming.
Emma Forrest
#76. Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?
Rickey Henderson
#77. If I believed in soul mates or any of that shit, I knew she was mine. I could feel it, this connection with her I couldn't possibly share with anyone else. Like we fit, this fucked -up puzzle that made no sense until we aligned the pieces.
A.L. Jackson
#78. I was the girl who could be anything-that's what my teachers used to say, and I believed them. I just never realised that 'anything'could include this.
Kamila Shamsie
#79. I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
Joyce Maynard
#80. Just kept hoping that if I believed something hard enough, it might actually come true.
Keri Arthur
#81. I would know of myself through the witnessing and naming of others. As Jesus in the Gospels is only seen and spoken of and recorded by others. I would know my existence and the value of that existence through others' eyes, which I believed I could trust as I could not trust my own.
Joyce Carol Oates
#82. In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.
Edgar Allan Poe
#83. Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
Ted Lindsay
#84. There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood.
Tana French
#85. When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.
Sergio Leone
#86. I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy.
And what is the truth, Stark?
It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.
Charles Grandison Finney
#87. 53. 'We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object'-this is the so-called systematic illusion of color. Perhaps it is also that of love. But I am not willing to go there-not just yet. I believed in you.
Maggie Nelson
#88. I told you I believed in you, win or lose, I was going to be in the stands cheering for you tonight.
Jaci Burton
#89. When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.
Tullian Tchividjian
#90. I believed in all the things written within me, I'd just somehow along the way stopped believing in my book jacket.
Samantha Young
#91. When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.
John Cameron
#92. I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do.
Suzi Quatro
#93. When I read 'The Water Diviner,' I was having the same kind of visceral reaction that I would normally have acting in something. I believed that I was the only person that could tell this story the way it needed to be told. That's the real arrogance of a director!
Russell Crowe
#94. I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God.
Helen Mirren
#95. There was no stopping it ... The way you worked yourself right into my heart. You took it over, Aly. You made me feel something real again when I believed all I could feel was hate.
A.L. Jackson
#96. There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible
Joan Didion
#97. [Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.
Neil Kinnock
#98. President [Ronald] Reagan told me he would negotiate and negotiate and negotiate with the Soviets, and I believed him.
Helmut Schmidt
#99. I believed back then that sperm, if not ejaculated, was reprocessed by healthy males into substances which made them athletic, merry, brave and creative.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#100. I was a mass of doubts now. I believed in nothing, not even in my own obsession. I walked through the ruins of life, even fearing, in my more lucid moments, that I might go mad.
Mario De Sa-Carneiro
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