I Quotes
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“I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.”
“I have always believed India is a country blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.”
“I have always believed it my right to have a locked door between me and the world, and to hold the key myself. Now look at it, kicked open. The doors are off their hinges, the portals unguarded, every cover blown.”
Source: For Two Thousand Years
“I have always believed reincarnation to be true. This will go on and on until one discovers oneself. But at times, my thinking deviates a bit from eastern philosophy. I don’t think our bad karmas would make us cockroaches, rats, pigs, etc., in our next lives. I am of the view that achieving Moksha isn’t possible unless we experience everything that could be experienced. I have to experience oppression, but I also have to oppress. I have to be a sparrow to experience the joy of flight. I have to be a bee to experience colours beyond the visible spectrum. And I have to be a dog to hear ultrasonic sounds. Do you get it? I have to experience everything to achieve moksha. Becoming a bee in the next life is not the result of my bad Karma. It is instead a stepping stone. The path to ascension has to be a spiral. Not round and round. Every decision of mine has to lead there. Every step has to lead me towards self-actualization.”
Source: The World's Most Frustrated Man
“I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.”
“I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.”
Source: The Lincoln treasury
“I have always believed that a single talented analyst, working very hard, can cover an amazing amount of investment landscape, and this belief remains unchallenged in my mind.”
“I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.”
“I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.”
“I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.”
“I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.”
“I have always believed that business should be a force for good.”
“I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.”
“I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.”
Source: Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
“I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.”
“I have always believed that everyone has the potential to do something extraordinary if they're guided and helped along the way.”
“I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.”
“I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.”
“I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?”
“I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.”
Source: Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences
“I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.”
“I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)”
“I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.”
Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours
“I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.”
“I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.”
“I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.”
“I have always believed that if you need to take your clothes off to get your man, you've begun to lose the battle. If you pull it off right, you can do it in a very classy way... Being sexy is about suggestion; it's about the tease. It's not about being obvious and forcing yourself out in the open. That takes all the fun out of being a woman.”
“I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more.”
“I have always believed that in a good marriage two people should be softened and deepened, their hard edges polished, their separate parts coming together like wine mellowing in a barrel, creating something richer and more beautiful. Unfortunately, not all wines age well. Some wines fall apart prematurely, their components break down, and they turn to vinegar. Once a wine goes to vinegar, it can't turn back. Love may never end, but some love stories turn sour.”
“I have always believed that in the lives of individuals, just as in society at large, the profoundest changes take place within a very reduced time frame.When we least expected it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready yet.The challenge will not wait.Life does not look back.A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.”
“I have always believed that most large fortunes are made by men...who tumbled into a lucky opportunity. Hard work and attention to business are necessary, but they rarely result in achieving a large fortune. Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich, he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.”
“I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.”
“I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.”
Source: The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, January 1824-March 1827
“I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.”
“I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.”
“I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.”
“I have always believed that personal relationships are vital in business and that people should be directly accountable for their actions.”
Source: Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way
“I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.”
“I have always believed that raising kids means more than just being a good parent and trying to do the right things. it means surrounding your kids with amazing people who can bring science experiments and jam cookies, laughter, and joy, and beautiful experiences into their lives.”
Source: The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
“I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive.”
“I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.”
“I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.”
“I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
“I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.”
“I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know what you're worrying about. I thought you were very funny last night and I'm sure everybody else did, too.”
Source: Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson
“I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.”
“I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.”
“I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.”
Source: Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way