Believing Quotes

• Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Habit
  • Aspect
  • Believing

• A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Man
  • Believing
  • Debating

• 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

• I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Success
  • Chances
  • Farming

• We came out of spring believing that they each had a scrimmage or two that they were good at and one or two that they made some mistakes at. Each of them did that and in our mind there was not a separation going into Thursday's practice. I feel it's unfortunate that so many of you in the media have ranked them and have put them in place so that players have to hear that the entire summer. It's really not fair.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Mistakes
  • Media
  • Players

• 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

• For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the mind. But for a while now all are alive, believing that in a single poignant hour we did say all that we could ever say in a great flowing out of radiant power. It was like seeing and then going blind.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Power
  • Magic
  • Alive

• God is at work in all the circumstances of your life to bring out the good for you, even if you had never heard of Romans 8:28. His work is not dependent upon your faith. But the comfort and joy that statement is intended to give you is dependent upon your believing it, upon your trusting in Him who is at work, even though you cannot see the outcome of that work.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Faith
  • Circumstances

• 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

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

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Story
  • Believing

• Our marvelous electronic devices can seduce us into believing we are hard at work, but we are merely sending and receiving insignificant messages, while the real work goes undone, day after day, week after week, year after year. Real thinking and grappling hurt like hell. That’s why so many people avoid it like a root canal.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Real
  • Hurt
  • Messages

• Ask, believing you have already received, And you shall receive

  

  Genevieve Behrend
  • Believing
  • Received
  • Already

• 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

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

  

  George Sewell
  • Faith
  • Sense
  • Believing

• Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

  

  Susan Faludi
  • Believing
  • Definition
  • Self-Esteem

• 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

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

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Killed
  • Press
  • Believing

• 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 have never stopped believing in this team, but they need to believe in themselves more and maybe we saw the start of that.

  

  Mark Wright
  • Team
  • Start
  • Believing

• If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.

  

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge
  • Song
  • Harmony
  • 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

• Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given situation. We just have to be quiet enough to let that course of action present itself to us. And we need the confidence to act when life shows us what we need to do.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Action
  • Confidence
  • Buddhists

• 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

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