Believing Quotes

• When it shall be known that, at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France - my benefactress - I repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I take pleasure in believing that the government I own, and my fellow-citizens, will render me the justice I merit, and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Government
  • Enemies
  • France

• I wouldn’t call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It’s about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you’re having, and lending your support to other women. It’s empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.

  

  Mel B Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Support
  • Feminist

• If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Exist
  • Believing

• Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.

  

  George Shinn
  • Mind
  • Ways
  • Believing

• I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about it when I do - I think that there's always the challenge of believing in yourself enough to get the work done and not being so taken with yourself that you're unwilling to continue to work on the work.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Challenge

• We have come this far always believing that justice would somehow prevail. This is the burden, this is the promise, and THIS is why we will not fail.

  

  Peter Yarrow
  • Justice
  • Fail
  • Believing

• Drink water, drink tea. I find that if I drink tea I can make myself think that it's something special, because you know how you just really want a glass of wine at the end of the day? So sometimes I can really want a glass of wine but talk myself into believing that tea is as nice, and that's one thing to do to be nice to your skin. Actually, two things: you're not have the wine and you're drinking water. Also just working out. All the things you do to be healthy in your life help your skin.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Life
  • Help
  • Water

• Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Wall
  • Believing
  • Powers

• Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

  

  George Sewell
  • Faith
  • Sense
  • Believing

• The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Heart
  • Secret
  • Believing

• One should guard against believing the great masses to be more stupid than they actually are.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Stupid
  • Believing
  • Guard

• You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.

  

  Aristippus
  • Liar
  • Reward
  • Believing

• We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Knowledge
  • Evidence
  • Believing

• There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Process
  • Believing
  • Wasting Time

• Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Story
  • Believing

• Seek to make your work a prayer, your believing an act, your living an art. It is then that the object of your faith will be made visible to you. It is then that you shall 'kiss the lips of your desire.'

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Faith
  • Desire
  • Prayer

• Erase from your mind that your preparation must be perfect. Hard work + dedication = a shot at your dreams. Keep believing.

  

  Kara Goucher
  • Dream
  • Running
  • Perfect

• Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

  

  Anil Sinha
  • Confidence
  • Conviction
  • Believing

• Believing in development, in a new generation of those who create and those who enjoy, we call together the youth of today. And as a youth which bears the future, we aim to create space to live and work, as opposition to the well-established, older powers. Everyone who reproduces, directly and without illusion, whatever he senses the urge to create, belongs to us.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Enjoy
  • Create
  • Powers

• It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.

  

  Nora Raleigh Baskin
  • Beauty
  • Believing
  • Presented

• I feel so disassociated from my writing - whether it's in book form or magazine - that I sometimes have a hard time believing that it's mine.

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Magazine

• Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press.

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Press
  • Killed
  • Believing

• For the uninitiated, “ectoplasm” is a ghostly kind of stuff that writers like Dennett are constantly accusing critics of materialism of believing in. It plays the same sort of straw-man role in his writings on the mind that Paley does in Dawkins’s writings on religion.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Religion
  • Writers
  • Materialism

• I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.

  

  Edward Charles Titchmarsh
  • Attitude
  • Believing
  • Rae

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