Belief Quotes - Page 40

• If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

  Epictetus

  Believe, Would Be, Firsts

  "The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments".

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• The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, Saws, Firsts

  DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

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• I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

  Don Herold

  Believe, Pleasure, Sure Thing

  Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”

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• Conceive + Believe = Achieve.

  Denis Waitley

  Believe, Achievement, Achieve

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• Don't be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the government, or any one else owes him his livelihood and that he can collect it without labor will wake up one day and find himself working for another boy who did not have that belief and, therefore, earned the right to have others work for him.

  David Sarnoff

  Life, Believe, Boys

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• I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If a piece of work is heavy and complicated then it is wrong." . . . Some writers feel that to express their ideas in simple terms is degrading. Some use complexity to disguise the paucity of their material. In fact, simplicity is a virtue and when, as here, it is both original and useful, it can represent a real advance in knowledge.

  Dennis Lindley

  Real, Work, Believe

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• Only interested in himself and profiting from the war as an unscrupulous entrepreneur, and not in being a patriot: "I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me."

  Clark Gable

  War, Believe, Mean

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• Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Believe, Men, Computer

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• The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Life, Believe, Ideas

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• It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Voice, Reason

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.108, Open Road Media

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• To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

  Blaise Pascal

  Horse, Believe, Math

  "Pensees".

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• So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor. . . . When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.

  Billie Holiday

  Mom, Jobs, Believe

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.45, Broadway Books

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• I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

  Bernard Baruch

  Father, Believe, Medicine

  "New York Post" Newspaper, May 1, 1959.

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• I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Long, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.204

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• This is a wonderful world for women. The richness, the hope, the promise of life today, particularly for women, are exciting beyond belief. Nonetheless, we need stout hearts and strong characters; we need knowledge and training; we need organized effort to meet the future.

  Belle S. Spafford

  Life, Strong, Heart

  Belle S. Spafford (1974). “A woman's reach”

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• If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Song, Believe

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• WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Wall, Heaven

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.235, University of Georgia Press

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• SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Challenges, Church, Teeth

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2506, Delphi Classics

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• RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Maids, Ruins, Virtue

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Mind, Preference

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Talking, Ideas, Soldier

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• INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, Fall, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.143, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Given, Asks, Earnestness

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.19, 谷月社

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• Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

  Al Smith

  Sports, Believe, Simple

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• A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Men, Emotional

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