Quotes on Believe

Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.