Believes Quotes

• No one really believes in equality who's on top.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Equality
  • Top
  • Believes

• I'm not a hypochondriac, but my gynaecologist firmly believes I am.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Believes
  • Hypochondriac
  • Gynaecologist

• A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

  

  Herodotus
  • Believes
  • Injured
  • Calumny

• He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Plant
  • Meaning
  • Believes

• One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Country
  • Slavery
  • Believes

• If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Things
  • Believes

• Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it - that's how liars are.

  

  Chris Chelios
  • Guys
  • Ruin
  • Not Embarrassed

• Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Heaven
  • Position
  • Englishman

• Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Happy
  • Freedom
  • Believes

• I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.

  

  Reggie Jackson
  • Know
  • Opinion
  • Forces

• For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • True
  • Man
  • Believes

• If one person believes a story, it becomes a truth—for him. That’s why history is such a mare’s nest: it’s difficult to determine what happened as opposed to what people thought happened, wanted to happen, felt should have happened. The slant is everything.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Truth
  • Opposed
  • Slant

• It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Faith
  • Atheist
  • Russian

• He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep." They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility; with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Heart
  • Labors

• It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Lust
  • Pity
  • Believes

• Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Spirit
  • Believes
  • Liberties

• Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Christian
  • Punishment
  • Believes

• Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believes
  • Telling
  • Regulate

• The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.

  

  Chapman Cohen
  • Christian
  • Worst
  • Teaches

• A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Defeat
  • Believes

• There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Enemy
  • Believes
  • Attempt

• Scriptures make it clear that we can drink of God’s river now, here, in this life, even if it’s only in a measure. We don’t have to wait to drink until we’ve passed on into the glorified state. Jesus said this river would flow into us, through us, and out of us to others. “‘He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water’” (John 7:38). This glorious river of the Spirit is available to each of us, and the greater our thirst, the greater our participation in this river (see Matthew 5:6). We can drink of this river now! Its source is God.

  

  Bob Sorge
  • Spirit
  • Source
  • Measure

• It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Free
  • Conscience
  • Believes

• He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • Knows
  • Believes
  • Damned

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