Believe Quotes

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

~ Robert Caro

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

~ James Madison

Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.

~ Conrad Burns

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

~ Leif Garrett

I believe in the power of the human spirit.

~ Bob Harper

Don't believe the hype don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.

~ Rupaul

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

~ David Ogilvy

But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.

~ Tina Turner

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

~ Elia Kazan

I believe in the power of weakness.

~ Pat Buckley

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

~ Lea Delaria

For those of you who still believe in the Easter Bunny and that the letters that appear in your local newspaper come from concerned citizens who really care, I've got troubling news. At least in politics, most of the letters that get published on the letters-to-the-editor page originate in the campaign headquarters of the candidates.

~ Peter Navarro

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

~ William Weld

I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God.

~ Thomas Mallon

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

~ Arsene Wenger

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

~ Wayne Newton

I believe in giving people a second chance.

~ George Zimmer

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

~ Corazon Aquino

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

~ Guy Laliberte

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

~ Ann Richards

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

~ Jean Cocteau

I'm a chemistry guy. I believe you've got to play together to have a chance to win.

~ Tony Gwynn

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

~ Hillary Clinton

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

~ Peter Diamandis

If 'The Hobbit' happens - and there's reason to believe that it will - then I think I'm in with a chance! Gollum is very much part of 'The Hobbit,' after all.

~ Andy Serkis

I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

~ Nicolas Cage

At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

~ Mahershala Ali

I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.

~ Gisele Bundchen

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

~ Melinda Gates

I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.

~ Daniel Baldwin

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

~ Alfonso Cuaron

My music is my No. 1, and I've got people who believe in me and keep me going. I'm thankful.

~ Jon Pardi

Many times I sit back and say, 'I can't believe that this is my life!' Other times, I feel self-satisfied. I mean, there's a lot to be proud and thankful for but, nonetheless, it's just a life!

~ Lily Tomlin

I'm thankful to be here in Cleveland, and I believe this is where I belong.

~ Josh Gordon

We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

~ Ruud Van Nistelrooy

As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.

~ Boomer Esiason

I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barbarians, a proselyte and an exile, for the love of God.

~ Saint Patrick

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

~ Jacques Cartier

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

~ Mehmet Oz