If You Believe Quotes - Page 5

• What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief.

  Terence McKenna

  Faith, Believe, Mean

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• We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, New York, Business

  Michael Bloomberg's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2004.

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• You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

  John Fowles

  Believe, Talking, Acting

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more.

  James Frey

  Pain, Believe, Heart

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

  Candace Bushnell

  Believe, Love You, Disappointed

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• If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, it has declined to make itself known for all of recorded history, it doesn't intervene in affairs on earth, and has made itself impossible to observe. Even if you believe in that God... why would you think it would want to be worshiped?

  David G. McAfee

  Believe, Thinking, Creator God

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Dec 06, 2013

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• Born to be some body." You were born to be some body, maybe a vet, maybe a hero, maybe a care giver. What ever it is you were born to be some thing special and if you believe you can achieve

  Justin Bieber

  Believe, Hero, Special

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• Knowing that wishes don’t always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there’s a really good chance they will manifest in some way.

  Alyson Noel

  Believe, Thinking, Knowing

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• If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

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• If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining

  Max Brooks

  Rain, Believe, Procrastination

  "The Zombie Survival Guide". Book by Max Brooks, July 19, 2010.

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• If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Lost, Unfortunate

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.168, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Miracle, Happens

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• Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.30, Bantam

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• Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.

  Juliet Marillier

  War, Believe, Play

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.114, Macmillan

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• Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can.

  Melissa Marr

  Powerful, Believe, Belief

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• A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Believe, Problem, Ifs

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.9, Anchor

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• I can't force you. I can't make you want to survive this." He pulls me against him and runs his hand over my hair, tucking it behind my ear. His fingers trail down my neck and over my shoulder, and he says, "But you will do it. It doesn't matter if you believe you can or not. You will, because that's who you are.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Believe, Hair

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• A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.

  B. Traven

  Believe, School, College

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• My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Opposites, Mind Blowing

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• If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Believe, Firsts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.24, SCM Press

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• If you believe you can read you can

  Lisa McMann

  Believe, Believe You Can, Ifs

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• A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find me on water Purify me through fire Trapped by earth nevermore Air will whisper to you What spirit already knows: That even shattered anything is possible If you believe Then we shall both be free.

  P. C. Cast

  Believe, Fire, Air

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Burned: A House of Night Novel”, p.161, St. Martin's Griffin

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• For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Children, Believe

  George Whitefield, Samuel Dres, Joseph Smith (1841). “Sermons on important subjects”, p.197

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• There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Wise Women, Ifs

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2013

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• I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

  Richard L. Evans

  Believe, Thinking, Belief

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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