If You Believe Quotes - Page 12

• Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

  Joey Ramone

  Giving Up, Believe, Unique

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• You will survive if you believe in yourself.

  Quentin Crisp

  Believe, Ifs, Believe In Yourself

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• If you believe that there's a being superior to yourself and that will guide you, strengthen you that helps a lot but, you know, you just have to stay the course. You just got to stay in there. You cannot be waffling or taking a poll to see what people think. You have to do what you think is right.

  George H. W. Bush

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

  Jenny Hval

  Believe, Taken, Mean

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• There’s a tendency for young people to get discouraged and frustrated easily. But don’t be afraid to fail. In many ways, we learn so much more from our failures than our successes. Remind yourself that failure is nothing more than a means to a greater end. Bide your time, learn from your mistakes, and lead by example. If you believe in what you’re doing, it will show.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Mistake, Believe, Mean

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• I think faith can be anything. It can be believing in yourself, or if you believe there's a higher being that's watching over you.

  Miley Cyrus

  Believe, Thinking, Over You

  "Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Interview THE LAST SONG". Interview with with Sara Wayland, collider.com. March 16, 2010.

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• Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

  "The Oprah-Nyad Affair". thehumanist.com. December 20, 2013.

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• Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.

  Dogen

  Believe, Events, Sage

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

  Nancy Friday

  Mother, Believe, Love You

  1977 My Mother, My Self, ch.1.

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• If you have the attitude of a young person and you work like a young person and you keep your body in shape, and if you believe that you can do it, then you can actually make other people also believe that you can do it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Attitude, Believe, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Anybody who has ever done anything knows that, when you believe, it doesn't matter what other people think. You just have to keep finding a way to align your vision with other people who will receive and accept your vision. And when the time is right, if it is for you, it will show itself, if you believe.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• If you believe in the values of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, if you're willing to work hard and play by the rules, you are part of our family. And we're proud to be with you.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Hard Work, Rights

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1416, Best Books on

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• I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Self, Different

  Interview with Andrew Marr on BBC2, February 14, 1996.

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• Rich isn't an amount of money, it's a mindset about how you live. If you believe you can win, you can.

  Dave Ramsey

  Believe, Winning, Riches

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• Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Believe, Favour, Naive

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• If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, War, Believe

  "HBO Real Time" with Bill Maher, votesmart.org. March 31, 2006.

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• If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Obstacles, Ifs

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• I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, 'How am I going to make a million dollars?' And she said to me, 'Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.'

  Chris Gardner

  Mother, Believe, Son

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• If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Peace, Children

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• Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal artificiality. If you believe a leader is at all necessary then you must admit that the longer the leader the better chances you have for success

  Ray Bergman

  Believe, Sea, Fishing

  Ray Bergman (2000). “Trout”, p.360, Derrydale Press

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• If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, Hero, Existence

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• If you believe that you will believe anything.

  Duke of Wellington

  Believe, Ifs

  Attributed reply to a gentleman who accosted him in the street saying, 'Mr. Jones, I believe?'

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• Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Believe, Ifs, Anything Is Possible

  Shirley Maclaine (2011). “Out on a Limb”, p.8, Bantam

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• Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it.

  Shelley Winters

  Believe, Fame, Stardom

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• power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Change, Powerful, Fear

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