Top 100 Quotes About Believing In People
#1. True leadership is about pulling forth the gold in everyone and believing in people before they deserve it.
Michael Brodeur
#2. Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.
John C. Maxwell
#3. That's what everyone thinks
they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that's not true. You know it isn't. It's about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will of people to do what's right despite their own instincts.
Scott Snyder
#4. He had a way of believing in people long before they believed in themselves, didn't he?
Rae Carson
#5. Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater.
Amy Alkon
#6. I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out
whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be.
Anna Jarzab
#7. I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.
Liz Phair
#8. It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.
Woody Harrelson
#9. I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead
#10. We do not act as your precious Christians do, slaughtering other Christians for believing the wrong way. Yes, we ask for payment. That is the price of safety. But we allow all people under our rule to believe what they will, so long as they do not disturb the peace.
Kiersten White
#11. You have people telling you how good you are and all of a sudden, you might start believing it and forget what it takes to be good.
Lou Lamoriello
#12. After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.
Wayne Dyer
#13. Repeat after me: "I am a goddess. I am a goddess. I am a goddess." Make this your mantra. From constant repetition you will start believing it, and if you yourself are convinced of your goddesshood, other people will be convinced.
Jessica Zafra
#14. So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.
Mark Rylance
#15. You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.
John Green
#16. People belong together to each other only as long as they believe. He stopped believing.
Paula McLain
#17. The trouble with gods is that after enough people start believing in them, they begin to exist. And what begins to exist isn't what was originally intended.
Terry Pratchett
#18. Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
C.S. Lewis
#19. Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.
Joseph Prince
#21. The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.
Leonard Woolf
#22. Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime.
A.D. Posey
#23. This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them on one side, or believing them on the other. They are formed by the head, in compliance with custom, though disavowed by the heart, in consequence of nature.
Lord Chesterfield
#24. If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles.
Shannon L. Alder
#25. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.
J.K. Rowling
#26. ..and whatever you do stay away from cults. There are all sorts of nutty cults out in Lala Land. Crazy people believing in aliens and spaceships."
"Mama, you believe in aliens and spaceships."
"Yes, but I believe in Jesus, too. That makes it different.
Marshall Thornton
#27. The trouble when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe in nothing; it is that they thereafter believe in anything.
G.K. Chesterton
#28. The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Fulton J. Sheen
#29. It's amazing how powerful a smile can be, even a forced one. It's all it takes to fool people into believing you're not falling apart inside.
Nicola Haken
#30. There is one thing that I do find extraordinary and it never ceases to amaze me. That even in this day and age, in any day and age, that people always insist on believing their heroes are men
Lucretia Grindle
#31. People haven't stopped believing in love. They haven't stopped wanting to be in love. They just don't believe in a happy ending anymore. They still believe in love, and falling in love, but they know now that ... they know that romances almost never end as well as they begin.
Gregory David Roberts
#32. It is interesting indeed that some people think they are right to force others into believing what they believe.
Christina Engela
#33. People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
Hale Irwin
#34. politicians are like movie stars. They surround themselves with sycophants and yes-men and people to whisper nice shit into their ears - and a lot of them start believing it, because they want to believe it.
Anonymous
#35. Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
Kate Voegele
#36. My journey is about believing that people will actually stick around. It's a hard thing to believe when you don't have a prototype for it. I've had to develop that for myself.
Jake Weber
#37. To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's lives and business - and leaving people alone,
Lyn Nofziger
#38. If someone says that they saw a Sasquatch, they're either lying or they are stupid! Now stop lying about the Jewpacabra before stupid people start believing you!
Kyle
#39. And it seems possible, moving to the psychological arena, that people can be better off believing in something than in nothing, however untrue that something may be.
Christopher Hitchens
#40. You get close to people. You get farther from them. You learn how much you love them, and then you say good-bye, believing that you will be together again, someday, when your lives curve back into one another's.
Nina LaCour
#41. I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
Melissa Manchester
#42. I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd ... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.
Zachary Levi
#43. people confuse me, with what they say and do. They rarely say what they mean,then they get mad at me for believing what they have said. Telling me that they didn't mean it that way or that they were joking.
Tina J. Richardson
#44. There are some people who state that the exterior, sex, or physique of another person is indifferent to them, that they care only for the communion of mind with mind; but these people need not detain us. There are some statements that no one ever thinks of believing, however often they are made.
G.K. Chesterton
#45. I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.
Nicolas Malebranche
#46. Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#47. Where there is a strong need to believe it's incredible what people will believe.
Marty Rubin
#48. Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.
Terry Pratchett
#49. Do not be astonished to see simple people believing without argument. God makes them love him and hate themselves. He inclines their hearts to believe. We shall never believe, with an effective belief and faith, unless God inclines our hearts.
Blaise Pascal
#50. Believing in Christ is the world's great need, and our great obligation is to tell all people that they need to do so.
Richard D. Phillips
#51. Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for what he believed in - or was brainwashed into believing - because of the people that surrounded him.
Andy Serkis
#52. It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.
Gemma Ward
#53. I hope people can stop believing everything politicians say about Mexico and the United States, and the problems that we share.
Demian Bichir
#54. My mother - she's a good old classic Northern European socialist - she's totally wonderful, but she raised me up believing that rich people have stolen their money from poor people.
Tobias Lindholm
#55. There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.
Philip Roth
#56. We are fed lies because believing them makes us weak, vulnerable, malleable. We depend on others for our food, health, sustenance. This cripples us. Creates cowards of our people. Slaves of our children. It's time for us to fight back.
Tahereh Mafi
#57. People are searching for reasons for believing, searching for answers to the big existential questions of "Why am I here?" and "What is life all about?" I find that people are able to accept the teaching of the Gospel when it's presented to them in both a rational and positive way.
Jonathan Morris
#58. He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity of their words was another matter, but at least they believed them. The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act.
Colson Whitehead
#59. The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell; but hell is a literal state of existence that will be the plight of all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ.
Tim LaHaye
#60. Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in.
Peter Hoagland
#61. The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.
Chuck Palahniuk
#62. I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.
Conor Oberst
#63. There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness ... I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to it, and put all one's heart into it.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#64. I know most people always thank people for believing in them - I actually want to thank people that didn't believe in me.
Tori Spelling
#65. Sometimes, if you have faith in people they'll surprise you. Mom and Dad taught me that. Risk is the price of believing most people want to be good.
Gwenda Bond
#66. We create our destiny by dreaming bigger than most people would think reasonable, by believing in ourselves more than most people would think sensible, by making decisions that most people would think illogical and continuing to act way beyond the point that most people would have given up.
Andrew Jobling
#67. For all those people who wanted to go on believing, but whose anger at God made it hard for them to hold on to their faith and be comforted by religion.
Harold S. Kushner
#68. I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.
Richard Dawkins
#69. Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs.
Ken Ham
#70. The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#71. There was no damn way we were ever gonna put our people into the ground again.
Beneath us was hell.
Heaven's above ...
... and that's where we all deserve to be.
Joshua Ortega
#72. Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced back to broken trust.
Dillon Burroughs
#73. People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.
Bertrand Piccard
#74. It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#75. People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.
Paula McLain
#76. Believing in yourself when no one else does is lonely. Surround yourself with people who believe in you. The alternative is eventual insanity.
Penfist
#77. We live in a microwave life where people want success without passing through the process of hard work. This is because our daily discussions focus on successes and not our struggles, which end up sending wrong message to other people, believing that success can be achieved without hard work.
Uzoma Nnadi
#78. There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.
Margaret Thatcher
#79. She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.
Christina Westover
#80. I don't know if a little tickle of psychic ability means we are divine; there are plenty of people who can accept the miracle of eyesight without believing that eyesight proves the existence of God ...
Stephen King
#81. People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
Albert Ellis
#82. Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
Elihu Root
#83. We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.
Haruki Murakami
#84. Let's stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another. Let's not be afraid that our different colors make us different people. Who cares? It's just a lie, and we don't have to believe all the lies and superstitions that control our lives.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#85. I dunno, there were always people believing in me, but you just gotta be confident in whatever you wanna do.
G-Eazy
#86. If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.
Robert Maxwell
#87. Good and Evil are names for what people do, not for what they are ... stopped believing there was a power of good and evil. That they were outside of us ... People are too complicated for labels.
Philip Pullman
#88. Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.
Franz Kafka
#89. I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.
Randolph M. Nesse
#90. Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.
Rahki
#91. The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whole movie. I work on this belief every day.
Josephine Decker
#92. Some people live to be seventy, sometimes eighty years old believing there is always something new just around the corner, as they say; in the end they practically have to be killed or at least reduced to a state of serious incapacity to get them to see reason.
Michel Houellebecq
#93. Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself
Henry Ford
#94. Still, as long as you keep pointing to the specifics, you will miss the full meaning of your pain. You will deceive yourself into believing that if the people, circumstances, and events had been different, your pain would not exist. This might be partly true, but
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#95. Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.
Paulo Coelho
#96. People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.
Willie Dixon
#97. Believing that all famous people have tons of money saved up.
Paulo Coelho
#98. People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.
Raoul Vaneigem
#99. Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.
Robert M. Gates
#100. A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
Shirley Manson
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