Believe Quotes

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

~ David Hilbert

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

~ Trevor Phillips

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

~ Louis Kronenberger

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

~ Maya Angelou

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

~ Helen Mirren

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

~ Joyce Meyer

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

~ Malcolm X

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.

~ Edith Head

I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.

~ Ginger Rogers

I believe time wounds all heels.

~ John Lennon

I confess, I do not believe in time.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

~ Margaret Fuller

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

~ Coretta Scott King

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

~ Dilma Rousseff

I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

~ Camille Claudel

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

~ Barbara Jordan

I don't believe in being a size 0. I don't believe in starving. Women should totally embrace their curves.

~ Priyanka Chopra

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

~ Jessica Simpson

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

~ Andrew Cuomo

But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.

~ Anita Hill

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

~ Louise Brown

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

~ Cristiano Ronaldo

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

~ David Cameron

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

~ Lil Wayne

I still believe that 'No Smoking' is one of my best performances.

~ John Abraham

Win or lose, I believe in giving my best and that is what I always do.

~ Lin Dan

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

~ William Butler Yeats

If you believe that your best years are behind you, you've guaranteed they are; I'm going to dance into that good night, with the oldies turned up loud.

~ Gina Barreca

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

~ Vanessa Kerry

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

~ Rudyard Kipling

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

~ Mike Ditka

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

~ Peter Ustinov

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

~ Albert Einstein

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

~ Joyce Meyer

I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.

~ Steve Wynn

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

~ Anne Frank

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

~ Anna Kendrick

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

~ Aristotle