Believing Quotes

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

I know most people always thank people for believing in them - I actually want to thank people that didn't believe in me.

You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today.

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.

Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.