Quotes about believer
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“A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.”

Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

People, Sleep, Madness

“A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it."
An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.”

Philippa Gregory book The Virgin's Lover

Source: The Virgin's Lover

Truth, Heart

“You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

Love, Way

“I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.”

Vasily Grossman book Life and Fate

Source: Life and Fate

“True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.”

Cara Lockwood (1973) American writer

Source: I Do -- But I Don't

Love

“What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.”

Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter

People

“You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

-Ella Varner”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

“Ned said "Nancy Drew is the best girl detective in the whole world!"
"Don't you believe him," Nancy said quickly. "I have solved some mysteries, I'll admit, and I enjoy it, but I'm sure there are many other girls who could do the same.”

Carolyn Keene book Nancy's Mysterious Letter

Source: Nancy's Mysterious Letter

World, Girl

“Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Love, Life, Angels

“She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Life, Dreams, Hope, Way

“For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: The Shoemaker's Wife

Love, Dreams, Star

“Raven?'
Yes?'
What do you believe in?'
I believe in - finding out!”

Ellen Schreiber book Vampire Kisses

Source: Vampire Kisses

“Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again.”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

Help

“Ayame: Hello, Tori-san!! You're not going to believe what Yuki just told me!”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 8

“You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

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.

Law, Forgiveness, Nature

“We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.”

Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher

Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can't have everything we want. Sometimes, we simply have to believe.”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Soul, Learning

“I believe people ought to mate for life… like pigeons or Catholics.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Source: Manhattan

Life, People

“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”

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

Time

“creative entitlement simply means believing that you are allowed to be here, and that—merely by being here—you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Fate

“… If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

God, Sport

“The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

Law

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

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I believe we are what we make ourselves, and as such, you, Crown Princess, are nothing.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

Parent, Princess

“Catholics don't believe in divorce. Webelieve in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
--Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie”

Diana Gabaldon (1952) American author

Source: An Echo in the Bone

“Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A. J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Books, Disappointment

“The more crap you believe, the better off you are.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and one time she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Books, Time, Reading, Summer

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

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

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.

Motivational

“They won’t get you without getting us and believe me, we’re not about to make our enemies happy and die here. (Nykyrian)
Damn straight. We have too many people to continue pissing off. (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Happiness, People

“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.”

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

Success, Success

“Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Feeling, Thinking, Heart

“Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

World

“He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Secret, Silence

“But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.”

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

Source: Incantation

Thinking

“I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people… those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

Fate, People, Waiting, Dance

“Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.”

Jane Porter (1776–1850) Scottish historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure

Source: Odd Mom Out

Happiness, Thinking

“And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily--open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.”

Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) American translator

Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

Love, Failure

“Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees

Variant: To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
Source: Fall on Your Knees

Hope

“This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“One false step, and you’ll fall all the way to Tartarus—and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I willhave you dying before you tell me your plan for my artwork.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Death, Way, Falseness

“[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist

“Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

Imagination

“It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense.”

Philip K. Dick book VALIS

Source: VALIS (1981)

“To be persuasive, We must be believable,
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful.”

Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist

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.

Truth, Leadership

“come back
believer in shade
believer in silence and elegance
believer in ferns
believer in patience
believer in the rain”

W.S. Merwin (1927–2019) American poet

Silence, Patience

“The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Secret, Dead

“If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck”

Ridley Pearson (1953) American writer

Source: Disney after Dark

“You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Marriage

“I can't believe you're going to sacrifice your archery mojo for MacReive." Lucia would forfeit her fantastical skill with a bow if she was unchaste. "Who am I going to hang out with when your a talentless nobody?”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

“my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Freedom

“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Behavior, Feeling, Thinking

“You promise." "I swear on the angel. The hell with that. I swear on us." "Why us?" "Because there isn't anything I believe in more.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Angels, Hell

“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”

Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) actress and first lady of the United States

Death, People, Penalty

“Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.”

Penn Jillette (1955) American magician

2000s, There Is No God (2005)

God, People, Memory, Time

“All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”

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

“The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.”

Thomas Merton book No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island

Love, Men, God

“So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!”

Jean Paul Sartre No Exit

Garcin, Act 1, sc. 5
Variant: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
Source: No Exit (1944)

People, Hell

“You know, dulceata, there are times when I truly believe you are the most frightening person I know.
Thank you?”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

Time, Personality

“As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

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.

Children, World, Imagination, Adulthood

“I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.”

Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) American teacher and writer

Men, Soul

“Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven't friends. Go find some.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

“Can you believe our Ash is getting laid? Our baby is growing up. I'm so proud!”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Baby

“Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?”

Agatha Christie book Death on the Nile

Source: Death on the Nile

Death, World, Personality

“People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

People, Lie, Stupidity

“That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.”

Malorie Blackman Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

Way, Change

“Our judgments, like our watches, none
go just alike, yet each believes his own”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism

Source: An Essay on Criticism

“That which you believe becomes your world.”

Richard Matheson book What Dreams May Come

Source: What Dreams May Come

World

“I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

Happiness, World, Peace, Singing

“Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.”

Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Change

“It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Hell

“I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.”

William Faulkner book As I Lay Dying

Source: As I Lay Dying

God, For Father

“I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

"Grizzly Man" (2006)

Hostility, Universe

“I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.”

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

Idea

“The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another”

Elizabeth Bear (1971) American novelist

Secret, Lying, Heart

“So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough.
And I will believe the same about you.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

Love

“Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

“Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Women, God, Angels, Thinking

“Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
that I do not want it. Now I understand
why the old poets of China went so far and high
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Why I Wake Early

World, Mountain, Understanding

“I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Life, Pain, Sun

“You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

Faith

“Take it as a token. Because tomorrow when I go, I want you to believe friends are possible.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

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.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy

“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

People

“You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we dont know everything. And since we dont know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

Personality

“You ever notice that people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day." Yeah, looks like he rushed it.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Arizona Bay (1997)

God, People

“Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.”

Philippa Gregory book The Constant Princess

Source: The Constant Princess

God

“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.”

Isaac Asimov book The Caves of Steel

Source: The Caves of Steel

Knowledge

“Shallow men believe in luck.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Worship

Worship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Men

“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”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

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.

People, Freedom

“And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

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Quotes about believer
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