Believe Quotes

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Saint Augustine

Yourself, Gospel, Reject

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.
Michael Jordan

Greatest, Basketball, Perfect

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

Life, Work, Happiness

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
Caleb Carr

Life, Hurt, Betrayal

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison

Power, Freedom, Silent

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Bill Cosby

Education, Good, Sex

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky Friedman

Marriage, Gay, Support

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
George Carlin

Authority, Pope

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
Antonio Villaraigosa

Mother, Grow, Taught

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus

Good, Friends, Opinion

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time, God, Cannot

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
John Lennon

Reason, Whatever

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams

Beautiful, Enough, Garden

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon

Music, Art, Respect

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Confidence, Rights, Gift

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill Gates

Problems, Show, Act

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
Carl Jung

Reason, Difficult, Word

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob Dylan

Repent, Seldom, Convenient

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.
Michael Jordan

Greatness, Process, Changes

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
Walt Disney

You have to believe in yourself.
Sun Tzu

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Power, Live

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

Commit, Atrocities

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. Mencken

Truth, Lie, Free

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

God, Dance, Knows

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
Richard Bach

Find, Eyes, Show

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I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
Chief Joseph

Trouble, Hearts, Saved

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
Barack Obama

America, Possible, Leaders

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Find, Against, Feels

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