Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo, V1
Source: The Stand
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo, V1
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
If it does matter, then you must justify your beliefs; if it doesn’t, then you must justify belief itself.
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 63
Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 63
Madeline Carroll (1996) American actress
Source: 'I Can Only Imagine' Breakout Star Madeline Carroll: 'God has Plans for the Gifts He Gives Us' https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2018/march/i-can-only-imagine-breakout-star-madeline-carroll-god-has-plans-for-the-gifts-he-gives-us (March 27, 2018)
“If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you?”
Michael Korda (1933) British writer
Attributed to Korda in The Power of Choice (2007) by Joyce Guccione, p. 52, the earliest occurrence of such phrasing yet located is by Martin Lawrence, in "What Up?" in Upscale : The Successful Black Magazine (February 1993), p. 79: "If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there."
Disputed
John Piper (1946) American writer
Variant: Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?