I Quotes
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“I believe it is our attitude that determines our altitude. It is our attitude that allows us to soar above those things that would otherwise overcome us.”
“I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.”
“I believe it is our values and our ideals that ultimately bind us together as a nation. But it is the English language which serves as the means by which we can communicate these values to those around us. Our common language, English, is that which unites us.”
“I believe it is peace for our time.”
“I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.”
Source: A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written
“I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down.”
Source: EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want
“I believe it is possible to make magic every day.”
“I believe it is possible to tell what sign some people were born under by watching their eyes, watching how they walk, how they talk.”
“I believe it is quite possible for us to obtain an outer peace at the present time. Historically speaking, when human beings are faced with the choice between destruction and change, they are apt to choose change, and it's about the only thing that will make them choose change. So we have the possibility at the present time to take a different direction in the world - the possibility exists!”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“I believe it is reasonable to assume that higher-order consciousness developed neurologically in Africa before the second wave of emigration to the Middle East and Europe.”
Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
“I believe it is right when not only me, but also my colleagues - the prime minister, ministers, deputies of the State Duma - when they, like today, for example, participate in two marathons, when they visit football matches, when they themselves take part in sport competitions. That is how, inter alia, millions of people start feeling interest in and love for fitness and sports. I believe it is extremely important.”
“I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.”
“I believe it is supposed to get difficult - your belief in your dream life is supposed to be tested. Remember, just beyond the storm is the island; if you really want to get there then fight for it and stay the course.”
Source: Meditations: On Freedom
“I believe it is the best method to get the buy-in for the road we have to travel. I believe it is a problem-solving process about how we collectively come forward with a strategy to deal with the issue.”
“I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.”
Source: Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81
“I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.”
Source: Cress
“I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.”
“I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.”
“I believe it is the responsibility of each of us to pass on whatever we have learned in our time here. If I reach enlightenment after meditating in a cave for 10 years, but do not pass on this teaching and it dies with me, this was a wasted life. I believe we are here to help one another, and each of us has a unique wisdom that we should do our best to convey to others.”
Source: My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
“I believe it is the responsibility of every generation to reach their generation for Christ.”
“I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.”
“I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the planet. Now is the time to establish our extraterrestrial base in freedom; later it may be under the coercion of necessity.”
“I believe it is very important to learn different fighting styles to make you a flexible fighter.”
“I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria.”
“I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace.”
“I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty.”
“I believe it makes us all even closer believe it or not. We were all pretty close to begin with but I think it's done even more for us. It truly is a brotherhood and I'm glad to be a part of it.”
“I believe it’s called ‘irrational reasoning.’ It’s what happens to people when they’re scared”
Source: The Consequences of Fear
“I believe it’s imperative to bring the light of support and knowledge to patients and families when death is approaching.”
Source: A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
“I believe it’s the people who talk the most that have the most secrets, and those who act as if everything is a joke are those with the most scars.”
Source: Replay: Lifeline
“I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.”
“I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.”
“I believe it should be the legal right of any woman who wants to have an abortion to have one. From the spiritual point of view, I don't see a problem with abortion in that the soul doesn't usually take incarnation until the last month before birth, sometimes not even until the moment of birth.”
“I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to...befriend.”
Source: Halo
“I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.”
Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
“I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.”
“I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.”
“I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.”
Source: Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
“I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.”
“I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.”
“I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.”
“I believe it was Shakespeare who said, 'All the world's a stage, and you are CRAP!'”
“I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is first ignited by the disposable butane lighter of physical attraction, but sooner or later the heat of familiarity causes the wax of boredom to drip all over the vanilla frosting of novelty and the shredded coconut of romance.' I could not have phrased it better myself.”
Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.”
Source: In the Company of Ogres
“I believe it was Thursday; my last memory was Tuesday night, and I did not use to die more than two days in a row.”
Source: A Story of Yesterday
“I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world. They know phony and they know real.'”
“I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
“I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of this process I have called the good life, even though the person in this process would experience each one of these at the appropriate times. But adjectives which seem more generally fitting are adjectives such as enriching, exciting, rewarding, challenging, meaningful. This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-fainthearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life. Yet the deeply exciting thing about human beings is that when the individual is inwardly free, he chooses as the good life this process of becoming.”
Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy
“I believe it will only be known on the last day how much has been accomplished in overseas missions by the prayers of earnest believers at home.”