I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Believe Quotes: Encouragement for Your Journey - page 153
Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.
George Gilder
Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.
Janice Kaplan
I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.
His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions.
Vincent de Paul
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
Hope is the destination that we seek.
Love is the road that leads to hope.
Courage is the motor that drives us.
We travel out of darkness into faith.
You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
Charles Koch
Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.
Vincent Voiture
No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.
Ronaldinho
The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.
Creativity means believing you have greatness.
With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.
Lee Friedlander
The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.
William Banting
...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.
Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.
Ellen Stern