Quotes about believer

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“I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

“It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much ugliness.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“the lesson of the falling leaves

the leaves believe
such letting go is love
such love is faith
such faith is grace
such grace is god
i agree with the leaves”

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet

“there are the non-believers, make believers and true believers!”

Sister Souljah (1964) American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording artist, and film producer

“It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause”

David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

“It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”

Chang-rae Lee (1965) Novelist

“So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

“Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the only real treasure any human can hope to hold always.”

Gary Jennings book Aztec

“I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in…”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

“I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

“You're so beautiful. I can't believe you're almost mine.”

Debra White Smith

“You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

“When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.”

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

“I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

“It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

“You are beautiful,” he whispered to me. “If you say so.” “Do ye not believe me? Have I ever lied to you?” “That’s not what I mean. I mean—if you say it, then it’s true. You make it true.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross

“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

“Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

“Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

“Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

“And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

“People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

“Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head?”

Meg Cabot book Twilight

“What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

“Love overlooks a person’s faults. That’s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

“It wasn't that she didn't believe in love; but she no longer believed in it for herself.”

Daphne Kalotay American writer

“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

“And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

“And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.”

Agatha Christie book Lord Edgware Dies

“Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

“Interviewer: Didn'twant to believe?
Druyan:didn't want to believe. wanted to know.”

Ann Druyan (1949) American author and producer

“It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“Don't believe everything you hear”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“… I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.”

Shane Claiborne (1975) American activist

“I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.”

Jorge Luis Borges book Brodie's Report

“Brightness… I believe you stray into sarcasm."

"Funny. I thought I'd run straight into it, screaming at the top of my lungs.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

“Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

“Learning

To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.”

Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator

“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting…. I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.”

Barbara Cooney (1917–2000) American writer and illustrator of children's books

“Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.”

David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist

“I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments..”

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (1968) Canadian writer

“I’d heard you were dead.”
"I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

“I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal…”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

“They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

“The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

“I believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

“It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying
the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I
now enjoy.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

“There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

“Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart.”

Robin McKinley Deerskin

“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

“Harry Dresden: The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the hell. "I don't believe in faeries!"”

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

“If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.”

Cheryl Strayed (1968) author, memoirist, blogger

“no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said.
"Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said.
"Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species.”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

“It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything, closes the door to finding out what's really there.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has
been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed
there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

“They held each other and kissed and pushed each others' darkness into the corner, believing in each others' light, each others' dream.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

“He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent."
"I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "But you seem to be the only one to believe me.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

“Girls had to believe in anything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might.”

Robin Wasserman (1978) American writer of speculative fiction for young people

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

George Sheehan Irish footballer

“We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

“Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

“Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

“For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless." -Maito Gai (Naruto)”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

“Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year.”

Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer

“You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now."
Alec stared at him in horror.
"Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

“I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”

André Breton book Manifestoes of Surrealism

“On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.”

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

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“You cannot, you cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“[A] novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.”

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

“I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.”

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

“I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

“Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.”

Herman Melville book Moby-Dick

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

“I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

“I BELIEVE!!!!!!!"
- Johnny”

Ted Dekker book Showdown

“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

“What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

“Believe me, when I say;
There are no two powers
That command the soul.
One is God
The other is the tide.
-Anon
From the novel Abarat”

Clive Barker book Abarat

“One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

William Faulkner book As I Lay Dying

“If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you are worth loving.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”

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

“Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid." I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books…. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

“I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

“I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat — and frequently drop the hat himself.”

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author