B Quotes
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“Believing or not your mother is the only one who believes in you, don’t get hurt by something spoken, but only you know what you are and what you will become.”
“Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.”
“Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.”
“Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.”
“Believing prayer will save the sick man; the Lord will restore him and any sins that he has committed will be forgiven....Tremendous power is made available through a good man's earnest prayer...”
Source: I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God
“Believing requires action.”
“Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.”
“Believing some facts depends on believing some facts.”
“Believing something can be done sets the mind in motion to find a way to do it.”
Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big
“Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.”
“Believing something only because you learned it through a system is a way of giving your cognitive power over to that system.”
Source: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
“Believing success is the first step but not the failure.”
“Believing takes practice.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
“Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.”
“Believing that all famous people have tons of money saved up.”
“Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.”
Source: Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation
“Believing that anything is possible opens doors.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: Change Your Mindset and Live the Life of Your Dreams
“Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.”
“Believing that art itself, and the proper expression of emotions, was the most sublime thing in the world, he thought political power and wealth served only one purpose: to make art possible”
“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks”
“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.”
“Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.”
Source: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works: Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices and All Authentic Writings Not Already Printed Among His Philosophical, Literary, Or Professional Works
“Believing that it is in the human nature to seek truth more than it seeks hope and alleviation, because a few individuals were staunch truth-seekers, is to believe that, because parrots can speak, it is in the nature of the birds to speak!
Heraclitus, Galileo, Darwin, Spinoza, Einstein and a few thousands more against the about 117 billions who have walked the Earth…”
“Believing that it is in the human nature to seek truth more than it seeks hope and alleviation, because a few individuals were staunch truth-seekers, is to believe that, because parrots can speak, it is in the very nature of birds to speak in human language!”
Source: NOVEL PHILOSOPHY: New ideas about Ethics, Epistemology, Science and the sweet Life
“Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creatures. We desire to sort of understand each other's experiences and points of view. Storytelling is what painting, literature, filmmaking is all about.”
“Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.”
“Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.”
“Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.”
“Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness.”
“Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.”
“Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.”
“Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.”
“Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.”
Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers
“Believing that war is contrary to the will of God and to common sense, and feeling that the way of peace is the way of love, I shall work for peace by using the way of love myself, by helping any group I am part of to use it, by helping the nation of which I am a citizen to use it, by helping the United Nations to use it, and by praying that the way of love be used all over the world.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.”
“Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.”
“Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.”
“Believing that you can achieve (and deserve) all that you want in your life is a critical step to your success. Don't waste your life believing you can't.”
“Believing that you can be sure of everything you've achieved.”
“Believing that you can move mountains sometimes is more important than actually having the ability to do so.”
“Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it”
“Believing that you’ve found true love is as crazy as being certain the lottery ticket you’ve just bought is definitely going to be the winner. You can be as certain as you want; it doesn’t change anything.”
Source: Not A Book
“Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.”
“Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.”
“Believing that your parents are always right.”
“Believing the best about one another and celebrating our differences impacts every part of the marriage relationship.”
Source: Two Are Better Than One: Build Purpose and Unity in Your Marriage
“Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.”
“Believing the phenomenon of karma is placing your destiny in the hands of the devil.”