I Quotes
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“I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.”
“I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.”
“I believe if you want to build up to something, you have to start somewhere - you have to start today and maybe tomorrow won't exist.”
“I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, its advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.”
“I believe if you work hard and you dream big enough, you can accomplish anything in this world.”
“I believe if you work really hard and follow what you want to do in life that that combination - I believe in it. You need to take risks.”
“I believe if you’re going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.”
“I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.”
“I believe in "love it, or change it" rather than "love it, or leave it."”
“I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.”
“I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.”
“I believe in a America first foreign policy, that far too often President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton - and, unfortunately, more than a few Republicans - have gotten distracted from the central focus of keeping this country safe.”
“I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.”
Source: I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey
“I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.”
“I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.”
“I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.”
“I believe in a democratic approach to fashion: if you feel good, then great. You may not look good, but it's not the problem.”
“I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.”
Source: The Onion Girl
“I believe in a fight between me & Wilder... I can come out on top”
“I believe in a free and open press; people have to cover the presidency, respect the office and its current occupant. And we need it to be a two-way street.”
“I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.”
“I believe in a glamorous life, and I live a glamorous life.”
“I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.”
“I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.”
Source: The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“I believe in a higher force that is within me.”
“I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.”
“I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.”
“I believe in a higher power. I've seen and been around people who are very extreme with their faith and pointing fingers and going, "You shouldn't do that because it's a sin against God." It's like, you know what? We're people. We're human beings. We're fallible. We have faults.”
“I believe in a higher spirit.”
“I believe in a holistic approach to learning, where emotional intelligence, technology, and strategy converge to create impactful learning experiences.”
Source: Your Leadership EDGE: Mastering Management Skills for Today’s Workforce
“I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.”
Source: Conversations with Grace Paley
“I believe in a libertarian communist society.”
“I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”
“I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens. I look up into the stars and I imagine: How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?”
“I believe in a magnificent God.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.”
“I believe in a non-killing future.”
“I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic - the loveliness of Nature, the lovability of people, everything that excites us, everything that starts our imagination working, LAUGHTER, gaiety, strength, heroism, love, tenderness, every time we see - however dimly - the godlike that is in everyone and want to kneel in reverence.”
Source: Music for all of us
“I believe in a path back. I believe accountability can be a step toward greater wholeness, personally and as a movement. The project of building toward collective liberation is too important and too difficult to permanently cut people out when they make mistakes. We cannot afford it. Simply firing and excluding people who harass is a practice that mirrors the ultimately ineffective approach of the criminal justice system.”
Source: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
“I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck... I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
“I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.”
“I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated with the world. And I believe in equality of opportunity. Those are my basic beliefs. On top of that, of course, I believe in some moral values.”
“I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.”
“I believe in a reasonable amount of "right to bear arms". But private citizens of the United States are not allowed to own nuclear weapons. I always wanted a nuclear weapon, if I could have gotten one. I'm every other kind of power, but I'm not a nuclear power.”
“I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.”
“I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.”
Source: By any means necessary
“I believe in a set of values I cannot live by.”
“I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my own backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me... a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamor.”
“I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.”