Belief Quotes - Page 38

• The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sweet, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.615, Library of America

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• Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Lying, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.954, Library of America

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• The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low road of least resistance, can we even afford to travel the high road of ethical behavior? Frankly, we can't afford anything else. Any other competitive angle is a pure crapshoot in today's business world. Companies with shaky ethics and shabby standards will be crippled as they try to compete in our changing world.

  Price Pritchett

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."

  Plutarch

  Believe, Moving, Moon

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• . . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

  Plato

  Writing, Simple, Libertarian

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• To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

  Phillips Brooks

  Believe, Would Be, God Within Us

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks”

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• The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on the rise of Christianity. . . . Although they do not inquire into the future, and either forget or do not know the past, yet defame present times as most unusually beset, as it were, by evils because there is belief in Christ and worship of God, and increasingly less worship of idols.

  Orosius

  Time, Fall, Past

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• It is a deep-seated belief on the part of almost all Americans that their successes will be better assured as they help to build the success of others

  Paul G. Hoffman

  Success, Helping, Assured

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• What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Believe, Sincerely

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• If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Believe, Silence, Soul

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.565, Penguin

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• Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was not enough wind for both.

  Morris S. Tremaine

  Inspirational, Country, Business

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• You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening... I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

  Morarji Desai

  Life, Believe, Numbers

  Morarji Desai's speech at the 19th World Vegetarian Congress held at Mavhmkar Auditorium of Rafi Marg in New Delhi, India (November 18, 1967), later published in The British Vegetarian, March/April 1968.

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• A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books; I trow that countenance cannot lie, Where thoughts are legible in the eye. Was never eye, did see that face, Was never ear, did hear that tongue, Was never mind, did mind his grace, That ever thought the travel long- But eyes, and ears, and ev'ry thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught. [trow; believe or think]

  Mathew Roydon

  Sweet, Lying, Believe

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• The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result - to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.

  Marvin E. Frankel

  Communication, Thinking, Achievement

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• God loves us and believes in us and has done and will do anything he can to help us, but he will not impose on our free agency.

  Marion D. Hanks

  Love, Believe, Agency

  Marion D. Hanks (1991). “Bread Upon the Waters”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

  Louis Nizer

  Atheist, Believe, Giving

  Louis Nizer (1963). “Between you and me”

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• When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problems-even football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Football, Believe

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• Said to physicist John Bahcall. I don't believe in natural science.

  Kurt Gödel

  Believe, Natural, Said

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• He gave me a look at myself I've never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.

  Judy Garland

  Believe, Looks, Saws

  "Fictional character: Vicki Lester". "A Star Is Born", 1954.

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• I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others.

  John Ryman

  Believe, Degrees, Certainty

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• Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.

  John Calvin

  Believe, Care, Made

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• It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Book, Believe, Heart

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Boys, I have been rich and I have been poor, and believe me being rich is better.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Money, Believe, Boys

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• We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Jesus, Children

  Interview, 16 Mar. 1976

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