Believe Quotes

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

~ Dan Quayle

As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.

~ Saul Alinsky

I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

~ Andrew Cuomo

I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

~ Randy Houser

I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.

~ Hillary Clinton

I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.

~ Alain De Botton

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

~ William James

If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if I were a golfer in Indiana, I'd be hard-pressed to believe in climate change because nothing's going on there. But when you're up in the mountains and seeing the glaciers melt away, it's an obvious physical manifestation of a warming planet.

~ Conrad Anker

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

~ Dalai Lama

There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.

~ Tiger Woods

The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar.

~ Tom Winnifrith

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

~ James Hillman

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.

~ Kevin Spacey

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

~ Carl T. Rowan

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

~ William Morris

I believe in exploration, and I will miss being on the front lines of that endeavor. On one hand, I look forward to going home, but it's something that's been a big part of my life, and I'm going to miss it.

~ Scott Kelly

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

~ Margaret Thatcher

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

~ Malcolm Turnbull

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

~ Marilyn Manson

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.

~ Kim Edwards

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

~ Bjorn Lomborg

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

~ Chris Cornell

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

~ Dorothea Dix

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

~ John Berger

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

~ Steven Biko

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

~ Akhenaton

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

~ Edouard Manet

Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

~ Queen Latifah

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

~ Josephine Baker

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

~ Mother Jones

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

~ J. G. Ballard

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

~ Nora Ephron

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

~ Ma Jun

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

~ Frank Murkowski

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

~ Brooke Burke

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

~ William Hague

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

~ William Clay Ford

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

~ Kiefer Sutherland

I believe that it is impossible to stop people from using the fossil fuels, so we need to develop technologies which allow us to use them without creating environmental havoc on the planet.

~ Klaus Lackner