Top 100 We Believe Sayings
#1. Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.
Iyanla Vanzant
#3. We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.
I. A. Richards
#4. I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.
Lucretia Mott
#5. We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We're more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.
Mike Tyson
#6. In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do not know, however, that in order to grow, we need hard bread: the cross, humiliation, trials and denials.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#7. Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#8. It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
Chang-rae Lee
#9. At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#10. We don't just believe that God is real, but in tough circumstances we believe that he knows the way out
Sunday Adelaja
#11. We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
Bashar Al-Assad
#12. We believe the only truth is a truth discovered. Not told.
Stacey Jay
#13. The wussification of America is killing us by teaching us to censor ourselves from what we believe. That's why I want to see political correctness die in my lifetime, but first ... I want to watch it suffer.
Brad Stine
#14. We can't act until we know who we are and what we believe.
Marian Deegan
#16. What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?
Aleksandra Layland
#17. The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.
William Mountford
#18. If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.
Helen Keller
#19. Every thought we think and every word we speak is an affirmation of what we believe about life and it's the same with magnetism.
Louise Hay
#20. Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.
John F. Kerry
#21. Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#22. We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.
Sheri Dew
#23. We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.
Jeremy Corbyn
#25. We believe in Sarva Pantha Sambhav. We believe 'the truth is one, there are ways to reach it.
Narendra Modi
#26. Shame is all about fear. We're afraid that people won't like us if they know the truth about who we are, where we come from, what we believe, how much we're struggling, or, believe it or not, how wonderful we are when soaring
Brene Brown
#27. And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#28. We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.
Jimmy Carter
#29. We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.
Jonathan Sacks
#30. Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.
Rene Descartes
#31. As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#32. I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.
Andrew Greeley
#33. With respect to human nature, we believe that the idea of God's image implies relationship and not any characteristic that would have left a mark in the paleoanthropological record.
Malcolm Jeeves
#34. To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.
Marianne Williamson
#35. Love does not reflect. Love is simple. Love never mistakes. Likewise believe and trust without reflection, for faith and trust are also simple; or better: God, in whom we believe and in whom we trust, is an incomplex Being, as He is also simply love.
John Of Kronstadt
#36. You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.
Christopher Cross
#37. We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.
John Mackey
#38. When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
William Jennings Bryan
#39. Our unity will always be a greater force with mixed ideals than if we demand that others change for us, to what we believe.
A.J. Darkholme
#40. Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.
Anthony Albanese
#41. Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders ... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.
Sonia Johnson
#42. I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe ... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.
Penn Jillette
#43. We believe that religions are basically the same ... they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.
Steve Turner
#44. We're boxed in and labeled before we're ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we'll become.
Andrea Gibson
#45. If we can't say "thy will be done" from the bottom of our hearts, we will never know any peace. We will feel compelled to try to control people and control our environment and make things the way we believe they ought to be.
Timothy Keller
#46. We are Christians because we find our identity, life, and purpose in Christ. We are evangelical because we believe the gospel and esteem it as the great central truth of God's revelation to men.
Paul Washer
#47. When we stand up for what we believe in - for what's right - there is always a chance that we risk the very things we fight for: our safety, our lives, our freedom. But if we stand down, the risk is definite.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#48. It seems the more we know, the less we believe.
J.S.B. Morse
#49. We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else.
Michele Bachmann
#50. Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.
Charles Spurgeon
#51. When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.
Sharon Salzberg
#52. We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
Plato
#53. When you TRULY accept yourself, everyone else will do the same. Relationships "mirror" what we believe about ourselves.
Shannon Tanner
#54. Sometimes I imagine we're all like paper stars, folded up and gathered together, each of us convinced that we are glittering and celestial, each of us bent into a shape so we believe we're something we're not.
Katherine Ewell
#55. The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
Shimon Peres
#56. We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man
Mort Sahl
#57. One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king.
Max Lucado
#58. We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.
Paulo Coelho
#59. We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits.
Anneli Rufus
#60. We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are.
M. Scott Peck
#61. We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually
Gregg Popovich
#62. No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
William Kingdon Clifford
#63. We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk - how much we can lose and the probability of losing it. While this perspective may seem over simplisticor even hopelessly outdated, we believe it provides a vital clarity about the true risks in investing.
Seth Klarman
#64. Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.
Michael Shermer
#65. I mean we're all guilty of getting sidetracked or getting taken away from our loved ones. Whether we believe it or not, or care to admit it or not, it's just a product of this lifestyle. That's a big reason why I've always called this the blessing and the curse.
Chuck Ragan
#66. If your employees, including your CEO, wish to give to their alma maters or other institutions to which they feel a personal attachment, we believe they should use their own money, not yours.
Warren Buffett
#67. We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.
Dalai Lama
#68. The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?
Philip Yancey
#69. We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission.
Jay Bakker
#70. How can we do that?" I replied. "You were the one who said if we believe in something greater than our
Malala Yousafzai
#71. And if we believe that God is everywhere, why should we not think Him present even in the coincidences that sometimes seem so strange? For, if He be in the things that coincide, He must be in the coincidence of those things.
George MacDonald
#72. This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe
at least I do not
that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.
Charles Spurgeon
#73. It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.
Charles R. Swindoll
#74. Do you think it's possible that when we're on something like marijuana or mushrooms and we believe we're having a really spiritual experience that we're just high?
Bill Maher
#75. Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.
Julianne Moore
#76. We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way.
Alexei Mordashov
#77. It's a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, Momma, do we believe in winter?
Philip Roth
#78. If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
Voltaire
#79. As Christians it is not just for us to know what we believe, but why we believe it".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#80. When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.
Byron Katie
#82. We each come to create the reality we believe we deserve.
Steven Redhead
#83. When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.
Simon Sinek
#84. Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle.
Margaret Kennedy
#85. We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.
Donald Miller
#86. Which we believe should be part of Pakistan not India as its population is mostly Muslim.
Malala Yousafzai
#87. gold is valuable as a currency or investment because we believe it is valuable (which is the same reason for valuing money itself). Gold's value as currency is an abstract social construct.
Paul Vigna
#88. I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but the camera always reveals something more vulnerable, despite our best efforts.
Katy Grannan
#89. Remember, buying something is not the problem. The problem comes when we believe, for that moment, that the object we're buying is going to make us happy.
Celso Cukierkorn
#90. If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.
Helen Prejean
#91. We believe the future come from a dream, no matter who or where, can make it happen.
Akbar De Wighar
#92. Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it - voluntarily.
Newt Gingrich
#93. If we believe in what God made and what God said, we will believe in the One whom God sent.
Billy Graham
#94. We believe in what we cannot know or understand. We do not believe in what we know.
Peter Cameron
#95. We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah.
Hillary Clinton
#96. Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
Tara Brach
#97. Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don't even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.
Robert Anton Wilson
#98. For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.
Horatius Bonar
#99. Happiness is the condition of who we are and how we think and what we believe and how we live.
Auliq Ice
#100. In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.
Phil Condit
