"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
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"I believe that such constant realization ennobles one automatically. One's stature is greater, one's step more elastic, one's aura more powerful; and it makes other people see that Light in one's eyes which attracts people to him who has it."
"We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'"
"Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you're going to fail, you probably will."
"Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything."
"Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture."
"I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat."
"And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education."
"Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that."
"Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it."
"And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey."
"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief."
"Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them."
"I believe things cannot make themselves impossible."
"I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling."
"The reason to forgive ourselves is not because we feel like it or because we want to see ourselves as blameless but because we limit what we can receive from God when we hold on to our past. He wants to do so much more than we could ever imagine. Forgiving yourself starts with believing in God's incredible love for you and accepting His amazing grace and mercy. If God Almighty can forgive us who are we to hold on to what He has not only forgiven but forgotten"
"I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources."
"I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer."
"I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve."
"I get to represent somebody I don't think is getting represented right now. The regular dude: the guy who believes in God but still likes pussy."