Quotes about believer
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Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
Source: Redeeming Love
Source: I Do -- But I Don't
“I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.
-Ella Varner”
Source: Smooth Talking Stranger
Source: Nancy's Mysterious Letter
Source: The Shoemaker's Wife
“Ayame: Hello, Tori-san!! You're not going to believe what Yuki just told me!”
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 8
“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”
Act II; sometimes paraphrased as: The customs of your tribe are not laws of nature.
1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
Variant: Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
Context: THEODOTUS: Caesar: you are a stranger here, and not conversant with our laws. The kings and queens of Egypt may not marry except with their own royal blood. Ptolemy and Cleopatra are born king and consort just as they are born brother and sister.
BRITANNUS (shocked): Caesar: this is not proper.
THEODOTUS (outraged): How!
CAESAR (recovering his self-possession): Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ
“I believe people ought to mate for life… like pigeons or Catholics.”
Source: Manhattan
“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Has been attributed to Stephen Leacock's "Literary Lapses" (1910), but the quote does not appear in the Project Gutenberg edition http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6340/6340.txt of this work.
Misattributed
Variant: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Variant: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”
“Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.”
Source: The Fountainhead
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Source: Secrets of a Summer Night
Source: Odd Mom Out
Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
“Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.”
Source: Keeping the Moon
Speaking as the Director of USIA, in testimony before a Congressional Committee (May 1963) http://pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org/?page_id=6
Context: American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
“The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.”
Source: The House of Hades
“If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck”
Source: Disney after Dark
“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”
“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”
“All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.”
“The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”
Source: Hunt the Moon
It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider https://books.google.com/books?id=IiKY1H0A_QEC&pg=PT102 (Hyperion, 2005).
Cf. Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider https://books.google.com/books?id=EEiqMIgAl3UC&pg=PA49 (White Plains, N. Y.: Peter Pauper Press, Inc., 2007), p. 49.
“Can you believe our Ash is getting laid? Our baby is growing up. I'm so proud!”
Source: Acheron
“Our judgments, like our watches, none
go just alike, yet each believes his own”
Source: An Essay on Criticism
“Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.”
Source: Just Listen
“I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.”
"Grizzly Man" (2006)
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Source: Why I Wake Early
“Take it as a token. Because tomorrow when I go, I want you to believe friends are possible.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy
Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution http://www.constitution.org/rc/rat_va_05.htm (6 June 1788)
Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention on the Control of the Military (16 June 1788); published in The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788, with some account by eminent Virginians of that era who were members of that body (1890), Vol. I, p. 130 (Hugh Blair Grigsby et al, editors, )
1780s
Context: Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism. If we go over the whole history of ancient and modern republics, we shall find their destruction to have generally resulted from those causes.