Quotes on Believe

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself - no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.