Quotes About Something You Believe In

#1. Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it.

Jam Master Jay

#2. Never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

Mike Markkula

#3. Each time you give in like that, each time you back away from something you believe in, a piece of you dies that can never be brought back to life. Don't let anyone tell you not to care. It all matters. Everything.

Christopher Herz

#4. Nothing's wrong with going to jail for something you believe in. Remember, jail was made for people. Not horses.

Maya Angelou

#5. Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Abbie Hoffman

#6. The idea that you don't do anything on the off-chance you might be criticized, you'd end up living like a cabbage and it's pointless. You've got to stick up for something you believe in." While

Sally Bedell Smith

#7. There are times when you have to fight for something you believe in, that you love.

Peter Riegert

#8. To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.

Robert M. Pirsig

#9. Find something you believe in. Then, just do it. That's what matters.

Kathleen Flinn

#10. It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.

Veruschka Von Lehndorff

#11. I will baptise her," he said. "You have walked a long way for something you believe in. In our day that is rare. People seldom walk long distances for their faith. That's why the world looks the way it does.

Henning Mankell

#12. Never give up on something you believe in.

Steve Scalise

#13. Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.

Aubrey Menen

#14. It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

Shreya Ghoshal

#15. Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

Chuck Green

#16. Men have sacrificed so much for their beliefs. Country. Kings. Queens. Political systems. God. Love . It doesn't seem very noble to simply let something you believe in, someone you love, just walk away. To give up without a fight.

Dan Skinner

#17. I think the one worthy cause I can identify myself with is valuing education. Because I believe education is something that cannot be taken away from you. You can have money, you can have fame, but in the end, it can be taken from you. But education will always be there to help you.

Shamcey Supsup

#18. It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.

Golda Meir

#19. Most dump kids are believers; maybe you have to believe in something when you see so many discarded things.

John Irving

#20. You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

Paul Auster

#21. I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to be able to understand how something works. True mimicry is actually quite difficult.

Eleanor Catton

#22. Never give up when you really believe in something ... just do you ...

Rose Elisabeth Sama

#23. Because when you've been around forever, you have to find something outside yourself to believe in or go mad. I believe in humanity. I believe in you.

Tellulah Darling

#24. When people ask that question, it's very hard to nail down a formula or a circumstance that I always write in, but I definitely do believe that there have been moments, musically, when I have channeled something, you know?

Kimbra

#25. You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and that thing is distracting you so it can have some privacy during the birthing process.

Pearl Cleage

#26. If you choose to believe in a God who somehow needs something - and has such hurt feelings if He doesn't get it that He punishes those from whom He expected to receive it - then you choose to believe in a God much smaller than I. You truly are Children of a Lesser God.

Neale Donald Walsch

#27. In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Jenna Elfman

#28. I would much rather have you believe in something I don't agree with than to accept everything blindly.

Adil Hussain

#29. I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. So, I believe I said I wanted to be a fishery manager. In hindsight, I think acting could be a better route.

Tom Felton

#30. I'm not afraid to take a step and if I fall, I fall. I pick myself up and move on. If we can all learn one thing in life, it's don't be afraid to take on something that you believe you're capable of achieving.

Michael Jordan

#31. You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

Cat Deeley

#32. In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.

Rachel Caine

#33. I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal rights is something that you really believe in, and you have a voice that people listen to, and you need to share that - I think that's really important.

Betty Who

#34. I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.

Harry Truman

#35. Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that's all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing.

David Baldacci

#36. If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

Frank Herbert

#37. I don't think you can just choose to believe in God. You either do or you don't, and no matter what camp you're in, it would take something life-changing to truly lead you into the other one.

Paula Stokes

#38. If you believe in something, then you shouldn't give up on it.

Harry Styles

#39. If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.

Leo Tolstoy

#40. I don't think you should give away your name and face to something you don't believe 100-percent in.

Claudia Schiffer

#41. If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George Edward Woodberry

#42. I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.

Alana Stewart

#43. And let me make the radical statement that I don't believe that you can say something profound in the 140 characters that make up a tweet.

Bernie Sanders

#44. But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.

N. T. Wright

#45. Success is waking up in the morning and bounding out of bed because there's something out there that you love to do, that you believe in, that you're good at - something that's bigger than you are, and you can hardly wait to get at it again.

Whit Hobbs

#46. I do my best; I put out things I believe in and if you don't like it then pass on to something else.

Rob Halford

#47. There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.

Josh Peck

#48. If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it.

Nelson Algren

#49. I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for ... the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#50. I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

Jerry Springer

#51. I believe so much in these products, and it's really satisfying when you believe in something.

Connie Sellecca

#52. You believe in Destiny, don't you?"
"Yes," said Leah quietly.
"Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs." - Jasmine

Jacquelyn Frank

#53. Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that , in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.

Dogen

#54. The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

Melissa Etheridge

#55. If you believe in something because of miracles,
then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.

Toba Beta

#56. If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.

Laurie Notaro

#57. I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.

Howard Zinn

#58. To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

Anita Roddick

#59. I don't believe there is one most romantic act that a guy can do; I think it is all about the couple in question, which totally differs. It's about you thinking about the person you are with and doing something tailored and thoughtful for them.

Roxanne McKee

#60. The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

James Russell Lowell

#61. Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

Harold Ford Jr.

#62. There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

Edmund Hillary

#63. What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

Salma Hayek

#64. And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.

Jim Bolger

#65. Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. And when you do - pass it on to the future.

Hideo Kojima

#66. I'm a sorcerer because I start with nothing, and then, eventually, there is something. And I touch you, I move you, I make you laugh or cry, and you believe in what's happening on the screen, although I always show it's invented.

Michel Ocelot

#67. I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it ... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.

Andrea Corr

#68. Even if it doesn't alter or change the end result even in the slightest... making decisions based on convictions that you believe in... and walking your own path... has it's own merit and worth. There's something to be said for not having... even on regret.

Tite Kubo

#69. When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

Cesar Chavez

#70. I strongly believe in that saying, "People don't care what you know until they know that you care." That's been my goal and objective - to love people well. That's something I can bring to this community.

Kelly Clark

#71. I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

Francesca Annis

#72. When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something that might be called the 'graduate student syndrome'; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.

Francis Crick

#73. You have to believe in yourself and you have to take risks. You know how people say 30 is new 20 and 40 is new 30? Well I think essentially what that's telling us is there are so many opportunities out there, you don't have to rush into something.

Jay Ellis

#74. Without people coming in to our lives we never evolve, we just remain stagnant. Surely there is more to life than standing still whilst letting it pass you by. What's even worse, is living a life pretending to be someone, or something that you believe others want you to be.

Skye High

#75. Never give up on walking right. Something you have to remember is that God's fulfilled promises take patience and faith! Having faith believes in not what you SEE but what you BELIEVE.

Chloe M. Gooden

#76. Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.

Suze Orman

#77. Do you believe in God, doctor?
No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

Albert Camus

#78. I like to think he's in a better place. And besides, when you get older, you want to have something to believe in.

Doug Dorst

#79. It's easy for people to come in when they think you're in a hot moment of your life, but it's really nice also for people who believe in your work for the long term and are there not when something hip's happening at that moment.

Patricia Arquette

#80. There is nothing that you can do that is worse for yourself, than to do something that you believe is inappropriate. And so, get clear and happy about whichever choice you make. Because it is your contradiction that causes the majority of the contradiction in vibration.

Esther Hicks

#81. He cut short my request for something to eat, snapping out, "I don't believe you want to work."
Now this was irrelevant. I hadn't said anything about work. The topic of conversation I had introduced was "food." In fact, I didn't want to work. I wanted to take the westbound overland that night.

Jack London

#82. If you're following your dreams, you're doing something you love and that you believe in yourself for.

McKayla Maroney

#83. The question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It's just a given.

James C. Collins

#84. Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.

Emma Watson

#85. What you think of as your common sense in regard to relationships may be based on something you have come to believe that isn't totally true or may not be true at all.

Chris Prentiss

#86. When you believe in yourself and the people you surround yourself with, you will win something really big someday.

Dick Vermeil

#87. The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

Thomas McGuane

#88. You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands
and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.

Diane Duane

#89. Mrs. Jones leaned in close. She smelled of wool and peppermint. There's a man somewhere who wanted you to believe in something ...

Alice Hoffman

#90. From something as simple as what goes in to a good meatloaf to the not so simple - religion, culture, how you should vote, every damn thing you think or believe, your reactions, your behavior - were partially shaped by who and what your parents were.

Sandra Brown

#91. Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

Karen Marie Moning

#92. Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?

Lorraine Heath

#93. I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.

Sebastian Thrun

#94. The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Victor J. Stenger

#95. Don't believe something just because you want to, and don't embrace an idea just because you've always believed it. Believe what is biblical. Test all your assumptions against the precious words God gave us in the Bible.

Francis Chan

#96. I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.

Daniel Johnston

#97. I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like if you can believe in something great, I feel like you can achieve something great.

Katy Perry

#98. Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really believe in. It's incredible what you can accomplish when you have both the interest to do something original (which everyone has) and the time to make it happen (which few have).

Ben Clymer

#99. You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

Cynthia Weil

#100. If you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of course, that it isn't such a great thing. Probably the only way to really play a hooker well is to believe you're doing something that's good. But at the same time, the movie can't have that point of view.

Maggie Gyllenhaal