Quotation Explorer - 'Believing'

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. - Fulton J. Sheen
If truth be told, I came away ‘almost’ believing in their existence. (Author on 'ORPHANS - Time is running out' by Ian Dewar) - Nikki B.
Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do. - Herbert M. Shelton
The greatest temptation you will ever have in your life is to give up on what you truly want because it seemed to difficult to have. If you put your loyalty into anything, put it into believing in yourself. - Shannon L. Alder
Real integrity comes from knowing oneself and believing in truth, without compromise, and no matter how challenging. Integrity is a beautiful thing. - Sameh Elsayed
Don't believe in anyone other than yourself - every other will start believing in you. - Amit Abraham
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe. - Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve! - Shannon L. Alder
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave. - Fulton J. Sheen
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins
No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to achieve some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it. But usually by bullying all mankind into believing them. - Saul Bellow, Herzog
Love is not about making promises but it is about believing - Anamika Mishra
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Asking storytellers to be genuine is like, asking a chain smoker to quit smoking . Habit of lying isn't easy to fix. Pretend as believing is like selling cigarettes. What else we could do, if we want them to be in our lives... - Heshan Udunuwara
Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases. It was the outpouring of the heart. Beset by perils, persecutions, pain and privations, they naturally turned to God in their need, believing that He was able to redeem them out of their troubles. - Herbert Lockyer
Faith" will help put us together on the same direction. Faith is building a relationship with God where he is in control. It is about believing although we do not always see. Do we love God with all our heart, mind, and soul? Can we follow his voice? - Phil Mitchell
There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. - Maya Angelou
God has a plan for you (Jer. 29:11) and you will make it through this time of testing. Keep on believing and moving forward and you will see Him working out the details. God is never early or late but His timing is always perfect. You will see, I promise. - Tamara L. Chilver
Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future. - Jonas Eriksson
You can’t imagine just how much believing in negative thoughts is affecting your life…until you stop. - Charles F. Glassman
It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting. - Alain de Boton
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. - Horace Mann
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
Don't trust the one who stopped believing. Trust the one who never believed. - Marty Rubin
An educated man believing in a this-that vile sky-god rewarding him-her, but punishing your enemies with hell and fire, is uneducated. - Fakeer Ishavardas
It's not about believing in yourself; it's about being yourself--take action! - Shannon L. Alder
Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. (Matthew 21:22) - Matthew Bible
Some things are worth believing in. That the little guy can make it. Every single life has value and is worth living. That honor and integrity do matter. That justice will prevail if not in this life then the next, and that God does exist. And what we do in our lives matters. - Glenn Beck
Life can never be perfect. Don’t let anyone fool you into believing that it will be. - Dennis Adonis
The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen.
We should not allow ourselves to be deceived by our outward show of ‘civilized’ manners and ‘cultured’ social behavior into believing that self-concern, desirous attachment, aversion, and indifference are steadily losing their hold over us. - Stephen Batchelor
Think about it for a second:Babies are not born prejudice, they are not racist,they don’t hate, they don’t judge, and are not born believing in christianity, buddhism, sikhism, hinduism, judaism or any other ism.We, as adults, teach them all these things. - Steven Aitchison
Believing isn't a choice... belief is an involuntary response to something you've learned or experienced. - Neil Carter
Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry about any significant challenge to their power. - Dave Champion
I thought upon the way in which we'd always shared each other's happiness, believing it would make the moment burn brighter and longer, but sadness can be shared too, perhaps sharing makes is burn briefer and less bright. - Tom Rob Smith
The mind has the ability to trick the body into believing it is happy and that all is well - the heart however, feels it. And as the saying goes, 'The heart wants what the heart wants'. Anything else just wouldn't do... - Charles R. Mackriel
No matter what... don't give up. Don't stop believing in yourself and in what you can do, because you are strong and you are capable. Prove them wrong! Don't let them win! Remember when you are at your lowest low - there's only one way to go now... and that is UP! - Steven Wolff
God doesn't need me to believe in Him. Believing in myself satisfies him just as much. - Euphoria Godsent
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is the world’s problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Paradox /pera,daks/ noun1. Being told to wake up and come back to reality by your family and friends, while being dragged to church to hear a lesson on Jonah and the whale, followed by a sermon on believing in things you can't see without faith. - Shannon L. Alder
You are not insane if you believe in things that don't exist. You are insane if you are the only one believing in it. This is the difference between religion and insanity. - Knut Nærum
If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply. - Os Guinness
If you're still believing, then you're almost there! - Anthony Liccione
Faith is, believing there is still a star out there to wish on, just for you, tucked away behind dark clouds. - Anthony Liccione
Use the powerful tool of thought and develop your mindset to believing and knowing you can change anything to your favour; yes, you have God`s Word so fashion your thought according to God`s Word. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Try to understand, analyze and find the truth before believing. - Debasish Mridha
If you truly wanted to Educate yourself, there are lots of possibilities to have it. Believing something you want will lead you to your dreams, just be patient enough and trust God in His plans. - Adoniemar
Never forget: loving, respecting; tolerances in your fellow-creature is a the lonely way of living free en gracefully and beautifully , and forever, never stop dreaming ,believing ,hoping and smiling and your be the most free in this slave world - Vanda Ileidy borges almeida
Yoga isn’t just about showing up on the mat. It’s about showing up in your life, in your day; it’s about opening your heart while standing firm and strong and believing in yourself. - Kathryn E. Livingston
Maybe comfort exists in believing there is order in the world, even when someone is making the most disorderly decision we know: running toward death instead of away from it.In their absence, we're left trying to pin meaning to air. - Kate Fagan
You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing. - Anthony Doerr
The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans. - David Richo
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
We're all a genius, but If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstien
Believing the phenomenon of karma is placing your destiny in the hands of the devil. - Michael Bassey Johnson
There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning. - Roy Bennett
My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
Before believing, find the truth; before accepting, try to understand. - Debasish Mridha
I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.
Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out. - Gordon B. Hinckley
Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there. - Ashly Lorenzana
Love is not about making promises but it's about believing, no matter how far you are or how frequently you talk, you know you both are made for each other - Anamika Mishra
historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God and this by definition means with the invisible, impalpable, uncontrollable, only one attitude is appropriate and required : believing trust, trusting faith. - Hans Küng
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick
There is but one solution: I'm sure that it isn't man, money, surveys, or talk. They all have their place, but if the basis isn't fervent, believing prayer, they are all in vain. - W. Cameron Townsend
A huge part of losing weight is believing you have the power to do it. - Debasish Mridha
I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself. - Darnell Lamont Walker
The best thing about being neutral and not believing or disbelieving in anything is that the nature reveals the truth in front of you automatically. - Aishwarya Shiva Pareek
We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. - Emily Dickinson
To understand what's happening in the U.S. presidential election of 2016, you need to know what's going on in the year 2024! Soundscape: Where hearing is believing. - Royce Flippin
Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it. - Ugo Betti
In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity. - John Kerry
The death of a dream is the day that you stop believing in the work it takes to get there. - Chris Burkmenn
Anything is possible if you just believe. But if you want to start believing, start with yourself. - Dulara Perera
Believing is seeing" is much more effective for me than the old notion that seeing is believing. - Harmon Okinyo
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. - Jim Henson
A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself. - Terence McKenna
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple
Here’s how to create an inspired vision for your life: Change the scope of your thinking from seeing is believing to believing is seeing. - DeWayne Owens
Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous. - Abraham Lincoln
Believe in the believing. - Deyth Banger
Today I got the answer why we keep on believing that the person who left us, is still in love with us, if we don't we will never be able to love again. - Tushar Chauhan
Whatever it is you ask for in prayer, believing you have received it, it shall be yours. - Jesus
The little dove, in her nest, in my kitchen window, still awake, all scared, waiting for the storm to pass and we humans are sleeping peacefully, believing that our concrete houses will save us... - Nauman Khan
You must believe to see, see to do, do to improve, and improve consistently to win; therefore, believing is the key to winning. - Orrin Woodward
{In a letter to his friend }I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not. Carl Friedrich Gauß - Rudolf Wagner
A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. - Thomas Carlyle
You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false. - Paul Graham
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
Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn’t that they keep lying to you; it’s that you keep believing them. - Steve Maraboli
Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
The world is waiting for you to seize the day and make the most of it! Who knows what could be possible. Keep dreaming, keep hoping, keep believing, keep doing! - Akiroq Brost
Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience. - Abhijit Naskar
Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior. - Charles Duhigg
You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself. - Criss Jami
Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing. - A.D. Posey
Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment. - Criss Jami
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.. - Martin Luther
In a culture of hyper-consumption the advertising industry has brainwashed many people into believing they can raise their status just by driving a particular brand of whatever it is they are pushing at you. - Stephen Richards
Trust and believe in the vision of your mind that others cannot yet see. While others abide by the creed that seeing is believing, you must know that believing is seeing. - DeWayne Owens
Belief is a shelter, so before believing, always find out the truth. - Debasish Mridha
Once you tell a man he's pretty, there's no taking it back. They think they're pretty all the time, and I suppose, in a way, they are. It's got to do with believing it. - Sandra Cisneros
Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore. - Lauren Graham "Someday Someday Maybe"
The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest. - Steven Magee
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. - Terry Pratchett
Happiness and achieving our dreams is a matter of believing it is possible and having a positive frame of mind. - Rob Martin
Life is about learning from the past, embracing the present, and believing in the future. - Lindsey Jacoby
Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre. - Israelmore Ayivor
I don't know why but they you said it I started believing it. - Salman Naveed
Faith, that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something with no proof at all. Like that's an achievement. - House M.D,
The biggest mistake that I see people with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) making is believing that all electromagnetic fields are harmful. - Steven Magee
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite. - Terence McKenna
The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children. - Kelly Bartlett
If we are to have real faith, we must study the Word of God and discover what is promised. Then, we must simply believe the promises of God. Trying to believe something that you want to believe is not faith. Believing what God says in His Word is faith. - R.A. Torrey
Believing is the shortcut to achieving. - Matshona Dhliwayo
people confuse me, with what they say and do. They rarely say what they mean,then they get mad at me for believing what they have said. Telling me that they didn't mean it that way or that they were joking. - Tina J. Richardson
To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, because they see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. - Titus Lucretius Carus
Before believing something, check the facts. False beliefs can infect and affect the mind. - Debasish Mridha
If you want to live your life to the fullest you must start believing in yourself today. - Nurudeen Ushawu
The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true. - Leonard Woolf
Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion. - Sorin Cerin
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
I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist! - J.K. Rowling
I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact. - William Hope Hodgson
Logic is trying to trick my mind into believing that what my heart is saying, is a lie ~ That's why I'll scream it loud and clear, Your heart knows what your mind won't always hear. - Nikki Rowe
Live life like there's no tomorrow, and never stop believing in yourself! - Jennifer Lovering
There was a difference, I had decided, between knowing and believing. And I wanted both. - Laura Bickle
The USA states that it can put a man on the moon. I have a hard time believing this, as it is quite clear that they cannot build a simple electrical system that does not make people sick in large numbers! - Steven Magee
The older he got, the less he believed and then the less he believed the more capable he was of believing. "Such a cool paradox." He said. - Jill McCorkle
To dream only of what is ‘possible’ is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come. - Mandy Hale
Blindly believing something often comes from societal conformity which is a sign of a lack of deep knowledge and imaginative consciousness. - Debasish Mridha
For those who have known pain and suffering and wondered why it all happened... I don’t know the reasons why, I just know that you must keep believing in hope and eventually you will get through. - Heather Wolf
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Trust is believing "I will be safe with you".Love is striving to keep the trust. - Wordions
Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it. - Jesse Owens
Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check. - Crystal Evans
Many may have stopped believing in you, but God hasn't. - Anita R. Sneed-Carter
Don't let fear, or doubt creep in. Instead, let hope creep in. Start believing in yourself. Open your mind and heart to the possibilities. - Akiroq Brost
The hardest part is setting the camera on the tripod, or making the decision to bring the camera out of the car, or just raising the camera to your face, believing, by those actions, that whatever you find before you, whatever you find there, is going to be good. - Sally Mann
Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don’t see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that. - David W. Earle
Dare not to criticise self, lift yourself up and set the boundaries for your worth. Speak kindly to self and hand your worries over to the wind,if you are here; you are successful already, start believing in your story, the destination will be meaningless if the journeys never been truly lived - Nikki Rowe
Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Faith is simply jumping from heights and believing that the parachute activation button won't disappoint. - Seun Ayilara
The way to make your dreams come true is to start believing in them. - Helen Barry
People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us. - Albert Ellis
Contrary to what phenomenology—which is always phenomenology of perception—has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes. - Jacques Derrida
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true. - Walt Disney Company
We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity. - Anna M. Aquino
you only talk to yourself when you pray without believing and having faith in your prayers - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from oppression: their right to privacy and freedom of actionand expression; the "victimless" nature of homosexual relations; and the many valuable contributions that gays and lesbians make to society. - Simon LeVay
Believing where we cannot prove.
Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect. - Robert Greene
[When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand. - James D. Watson
I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are? - Kate McGahan
Am I seeing or am i dreamingIts showing so I'm believingAm i seeing what i believe orAm i being shown then believing - Mohammad K. Walizada
The trouble when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe in nothing; it is that they thereafter believe in anything. In this century, 'anything' has included Hitler, Stalin and Mao, authors of the great genocidal madnesses of our time. - Charles Krauthammer
I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself. - Muhammad Ali
Some believe to be spiritual, is to be always loving and shit... Being spiritual is taking no shit, by believing that your voice deserves to be heard if the deed is not satisfying your soul. - Nikki Rowe
It's not about people believing the story. It's about you knowing and holding it to be true. - Joan Ambu
Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When YOU stop believing one person in the world cannot make a difference; differences in the world will be made. - Kellie Elmore
The biggest roadblock to changing the world is believing that your voice doesn't matter. - Adam Smith
praying without having faith in and believing in what you pray for is just a simple act of soliloquizing - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The only thing sillier than believing in gods is arguing against their existence. - Marty Rubin
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. - George Bernard Shaw
Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we’ve engaged in ‘right’ living, verses believing that living is a ‘right. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions. - Auliq Ice
You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it. - Shannon L. Alder
I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. - Anaïs Nin
Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left. - James Rozoff
Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Your dreams won’t die until you die don’t ever stop believing! - Enock Maregesi
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
Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn't that they keep lying to you; it's that you keep believing them. - Steve Maraboli
Never stop believing, have your own happy end. - Anush Yepremyan
Be so focused on believing that you can that it doesn't matter if anyone says you can't. - Chris Burkmenn
But penetration was a big deal. They protected their anuses the way girls protected their hymen in high school, believing that allowing anything beyond their holy gates would permanently corrupt them. - Maggie Young
We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
We work hard for the things we want, we compromise, we amend, we persevere, we stay believing, we show commitment. We strive! Later we will see the results - Tshepang Sharon Koji
It is strangely wonderful to feel the lack of something instead of believing that it was never there in the first place. - Kevin Wilson
Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die accordingly. A wise person, or a fool. Choose. - Fakeer Ishavardas