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• We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

  Jean Rostand

  Long, Giving, Self Respect

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• I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that.

  Stirling Moss

  Running, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Spiritual, Soul, Desire

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 07, 2013

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• I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.

  Ivan Lendl

  Motivational, Sports, Brain

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• I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Sports, Thinking

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• I don't believe the old statement, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." If that were the case, then Cadillacs and Jaguars and Mercedes would never make a change. I've always looked for ways to make things better.

  Vic Bubas

  Motivational, Sports, Cadillacs

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• Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Angel, Watches

  Billy Graham (1995). “Angels - How to be born again - The Holy Spirit : his greatest works”

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• We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should be evident in our lives, for being a Christian is more than making sound professions of faith. It should reveal itself in practical and visible ways. Indeed it is better to keep quiet about our beliefs, and live them out, than to talk eloquently about what we believe, but fail to live by it.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Christian, Tree, Sound

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• I strongly believe that nothing is more spiritual than living at our highest potential while serving others. I believe that the more closely aligned we are to "spirit" the more fully we will give ourselves in service to the world. As such, my "spiritual path" is the path that leads me to a more complete manifestation of my unique Bodhisattvic duties.

  Brian Johnson

  Spiritual, Unique, Giving

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• I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care when the spiritual forces that make us wish to be right and noble die in our hearts.

  Laurence McKinley Gould

  Spiritual, Future, Heart

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• I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.

  Emmeline B. Wells

  Education, Spiritual, Desire

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• The law of chastity is not a negative proposition, but a positive one because in its observance there are spiritual values that far outweigh the physical dangers that we often emphasize. I believe the chances are that our children will respond to the positive attitude quicker and more thoroughly than they do to the negative. Let's show them the values that there are in that law.

  Antoine R. Ivins

  Spiritual, Children, Attitude

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• I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.

  Charles George Gordon

  Thinking, Evil, Annoyed

  Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan

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• As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Success, Temptation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

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• Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.

  Bill Watterson

  Men, Evil, Temptation

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can regulate all mankind and get wrong ideas which they believe to be panaceas for every ill cause much trouble to both employers and employees by their interference.

  Jay Gould

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Jay Gould : A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, February 1893.

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• For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Going Away, Trying, Overcoming

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• You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

  Thomas Keneally

  Kids, Flesh, Eccentric

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• And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.

  Thomas Keneally

  Dirty, Australia, Taste

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• I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

  Barry Diller

  Law, Natural, Synergy

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• I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Easier, Structure, Mutton

  William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.530, Encounter Books

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• Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Creation, Determinism

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• I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Taken, Years

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• We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.

  Donatella Versace

  Style, Trying, Copying

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• Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, People, Pessimism

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 324, 1977.

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