Believe Quotes

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

~ Brennan Manning

I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't trust each other - hence the separation of powers. And then, to close the deal, the Bill of Rights was added to continue to protect individual rights and freedoms.

~ John Shimkus

If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.

~ Robert H. Schuller

It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

~ Jeb Bush

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

~ James Comey

Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.

~ Adam Grant

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

~ Claudia Black

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

~ Joyce Meyer

I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin' to me once, but I believe it now.

~ Gene Wilder

Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

~ Jesse Ventura

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.

~ Pierce Brosnan

Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.

~ Barton Gellman

People don't care anymore because they don't believe in us; they don't trust us. And that's why we should change politics, not just accept the cynical frame that, 'Well, that's just politics.'

~ Gavin Newsom

I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say?

~ Jim Harrison

I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.

~ Gordon Brown

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.

~ James Altucher

The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.

~ Yair Lapid

We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.

~ Jonathan Sacks

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

~ Dee Dee Myers

There are curveballs that are thrown at you, and you just have to get over it and forgive... if you believe you're perfect, and you don't believe in forgiveness, you're not meant to be married.

~ Kendra Wilkinson

I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.

~ Brie Larson

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

~ Rick Perry

I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.

~ Kirk Cameron

We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.

~ Joel Salatin

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

~ Alan Ball

I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore the Second Amendment rights to people who are qualified and have shown themselves qualified to have those rights restored to them.

~ Matt Bevin

I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

~ Park Chan-Wook

Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding?

~ Meir Soloveichik

I believe in forgiveness.

~ Pam Bondi

If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough.

~ Jud Wilhite

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

~ Gary Miller

I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.

~ Esha Gupta

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

~ Whitney Houston

Find your own way, have an open spirit, and believe in your own beauty.

~ Francois Nars

I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

~ Maggie Grace

I like 'Zorro.' I like people you can believe that don't have those stupid powers. That is the beauty of Zorro. He's just a guy working for the people, to save the people.

~ Catherine Zeta-Jones

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

~ Loretta Young

I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.

~ Saul Leiter

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

~ Ron White

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

~ Walt Whitman