Quotes about believer
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“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

“My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Love, Life

“I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in—like peace and justice and freedom.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Source: Wall and Piece (2007)

Peace, Justice, Democracy, Thinking

“I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

"Presidential Candidates Proposing to Ban Muslim Immigration to the United States" http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/muhammad-ali-hits-trump-misguided-murderers-sabotaging-islam-n477351 (9 December 2015). <br class="br">Context: I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world... True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion... We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda... They have alienated many from learning about Islam. True Muslims know or should know that it goes against our religion to try and force Islam on anybody.

Peace, Religion, Peaceful

“I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: The Dresden Files, Grave Peril (2001), Chapter 24
Context: Michael Carpenter: I still can’t believe, that you came to the Vampires’ Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.
Harry Dresden: Not only that, but a cheesy vampire.

“The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

People, Truth, Change

“I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.”

Ilchi Lee (1950) South Korean businessman

Source: Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Change, Help

“We're going to be okay."

Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

Secret

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Life, Motivational, Deep, Success

“How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?”

Francine Rivers book An Echo in the Darkness

Source: An Echo in the Darkness

Anger

“And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Love

“The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.”

Dashiell Hammett book The Thin Man

Source: The Thin Man

People, Lie, Fools, Thinking

“What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

God, Dogs, Question

“I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Let Me be a Woman

Maternity

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Love, Hate

“Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Life, Wisdom, God, Angels

“If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.”

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Heart

“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.”

John Stuart Mill book Considerations on Representative Government

In a Parliamentary debate with the Conservative MP, John Pakington (May 31, 1866). Hansard, vol 183, col 1592. Pakington was referring to Footnote 3 to Chapter 7 of Mill's "Considerations on Representative Government".
Misquoted as "I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it." in "Life of John Stuart Mill" (1889) by W. L. Courtney, p. 147.
This seems to have become paraphrased as "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." which was a variant published in Quotations for Our Time (1978), edited by Laurence J. Peter.

Stupidity, Question, Thinking, Personality

“Death never comes at thetime, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”

Christopher Pike book The Last Vampire

Source: The Last Vampire

Death

“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

As quoted in Precision Shooting : The Trapshooter's Bible‎ (1998) by James Russell, p. 54
Variant: Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Reality

“If my mind can conceive it; and my heart can believe it — then I can achieve it.”

Muhammad Ali book The Soul of a Butterfly

Similar to a quote by Jesse Jackson, which is in turn a modification of a quote by Napoleon Hill: "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
Misattributed
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Heart, Wise, Deep, Success

“There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.”

Gene Wolfe book There Are Doors

Source: There Are Doors

Love, Lovers

“If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

“You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“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 (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Knowledge

“We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.”

John Marsden book Tomorrow, When the War Began

Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began

“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

“She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Color, Universe

“All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing:”

Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins

Source: Beautiful Ruins

History, Motivation, Decision, Parting

“I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

God, Faith, Question

“Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.”

Robert Ludlum The Janson Directive

Source: The Janson Directive

“I don't think she doesn't believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Thinking

“I believe in books.”

Carole Maso (1956) American writer

Source: Room Lit By Roses

Books

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Hope, Time, Past

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

As quoted in Multiple Intelligences in Practice : Enhancing Self-esteem and Learning in the Classroom (2006) by Mike Fleetham, Section 2 : Using MI
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

God

“… if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

“I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.”

Christopher Pike book The Last Vampire

Source: The Last Vampire

World

“And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.
Source: City of Bones

God, Way, Lying, Dead

“If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining”

Max Brooks book The Zombie Survival Guide

Source: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Thinking

“When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

World, Nature

“Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Happiness, Future

“Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering.
Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them.
Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.”

Steven Erikson book The Bonehunters

Source: The Bonehunters

Life, Death, God, Peace

“Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably normal. She believed she couldn't hurt anybody as long as she was only working.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections (2001)

Life, Hurt

“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Pleasure

“… In its original Latin form, sacrifice means to make sacred or to make holy. I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting, regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Parent

“But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.”

Chris Crutcher book Deadline

Source: Deadline

Truth

“I can’t believe you grew up and ate a monkey. Worse, I can’t believe I let a guy who ate a monkey kiss my mouth.”
Honey, I kissed more than your mouth.”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

Source: I'm In No Mood For Love

Guy, Kiss

“At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Life

“Danish. I’d come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Food

“You might not believe it… but you make the world a better place when you smile.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Variant: The world is a better place when you smile
Source: The Guardian

World, Smile

“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

Life, Feeling, Imagination, Past

“I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Source: Faithless

Happiness, Hope, Soul

“We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

People

“How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

Love

“Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

World, Suffering

“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Faith

“She knew few words and believed in none.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage

“As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn’t matter, I knew that to her it did.”

Jennifer Weiner book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

Beauty, Time

“There is evil! It's actual, like cement.

I can't believe it. I can't stand it.

Evil is not a view… it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.”

Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle

World, Evil, Heart

“for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

World, Beauty

“She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him."
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to be with you.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Love, Time

“For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment— the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Love, Life, Way, Time

“Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“Some things have to be believed to be seen.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Time, Joy

“Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Love

“Why did you say you believed me?"
In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered.
"Because I trust you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

Girl

“Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.”

Alison Goodman (1966) Australian science-fiction writer

Source: Eona: The Last Dragoneye

Women, Men, Madness

“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Love, Time

“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

God

“The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein's God (1997), p. vii

“Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

Feeling

“Have faith in who you are. Believe that you will recover, and it will truly happen. And don't judge yourself too harshly. Some things are meant to be, and you had to fall so that later you may rise and become what you are truly meant to be.”

Joseph Delaney (1945) British writer

Source: Clash of the Demons

Faith

“You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Sometimes attributed to Contact (1985), but the quote does not appear in that book. <br class="br">It appears attributed to Sagan in Judson Poling's 2003 book "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?", but without source. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Via Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=Ondv5WzhYYYC&pg=PA21&dq=Sagan

“Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

Life, People, Cars, Hurt

“For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels…. And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.”

Dorothy Koomson book My Best Friend's Girl

Source: My Best Friend's Girl

Love, Soul, Perfection

“For all those who believe, expect a miracle.”

Linda Goodman (1925–1995) American astrologer

Source: Linda Goodman's Star Signs

“The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Challenger Deep

“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Courageous

“Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Books, Personality

“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

Truth

“As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World

Life, God, Beauty

“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Life

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

Positive Thinking Every Day : An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year (1993), "April 13"
Earlier variant: People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. And those who have learned to have a realistic, nonegotistical belief in themselves, who possess a deep and sound self-confidence, are assets to mankind, too, for they transmit their dynamic quality to those lacking it.
‪You Can If You Think You Can‬ (1987), p. 84

People, Secret, Thinking, Success

“There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson book The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Source: The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

People, Help

“He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

Life, Men, Truth, Evil

“There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief… is the weight of a sleeping child.”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

Love, Death, Sleep, Loss

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

The New Yorker (March 29, 1976)

People, Sense

“If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Love, Life, God, Lovers

“Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling.

"That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Smile

“Do you think…"
He raised his eyebrows. "Do I think what?"
"That Valentine might have drowned?"
"Never believe the bad guy is dead until you see a body," said Simon. "That just leads to unhappiness and surprise ambushes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Guy, Thinking, Dead

“There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?”

Suzanne Weyn book Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

Source: Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

Thinking

“When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.”

Laura Hillenbrand book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Love, History, Suffering

“An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”

Donald Ervin Knuth book The Art of Computer Programming

Vol. I, Fundamental Algorithms, Section 1.1 (1968)
The Art of Computer Programming (1968–2011)
Source: Leaders in Computing: Changing the digital world

“Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Idea

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