Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.
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Related We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you truly believe in something, that is, if you care enough about it to not just dream about it, ... CORY GROSHEK How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself... RAINER MARIA RILKE What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every ... LANCE ARMSTRONG Events always happen when you truly believe in them and it is the belief that make them happen. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ... MITCH ALBOM Dehadhyas (the belief that ‘I am the body’) is to continue believing you are someone that you re... DADA BHAGWAN Why can't I say 'I created this universe'. I have all the right to say. But who would believe me? Th... EPHDAN Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being h... EPICTETUS One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and... JOAN OF ARC One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and... JOAN ARC One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and... JEANNE D'ARC If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is tru... GORDON ATKINSON We will always have enough reasons to justify what we believe and what we do not believe. M.F. MOONZAJER The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in thing makes
it happen. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only ... ALFRED BESTER There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that... TIGER WOODS Out there I have got so many well-wishers and some just don’t believe in love and they try to conv... VINOD GATH Joan of Arc wrote, “I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gi... MATTHEW KELLY Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the ... C. JOYBELL C. I truly believe that there's a little bit of Rosa Parks in all Americans who have the courage to say... CHARLES RANGEL Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but ... MARTINA MCBRIDE Faith is a beautiful thing. When you believe in an image; an ideal; a supreme being or figure and yo... ANTHONY T. HINCKS What is success? You cannot succeed without the presence of failure. If you have the absence of fail... JOSEPH JOLLEY What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER It is always difficult. At what level do you accept anecdotal evidence? We have enough that it's a c... JAMES STOVER They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians.... G.K. CHESTERTON Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we ha... R.A. SALVATORE For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in what they... NORMAN GEISLER Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word "faith," feeling that it has no connection to t... KENTETSU TAKAMORI We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the... TARUN BETALA We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think ... PAULO COELHO The nonbelievers need the believers. They are desperate to have someone believe." "As belief shrinks... DON DELILLO Shall we not recover ourselves? Shall we not redeem ourselves to one another? Shall we not restore t... L.M. BROWNING If you say that there was no first cause (a Creator), then you are stuck with the unscientific and t... RAY COMFORT You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believ... ERNEST DIMNET You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believ... ERNEST DIMNET You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I think we all need to believe in hope: that if we have dreams and if we have ambitions and if we ha... DAVID FURNISH When it comes to believing in the important things in life (like love, hope, justice, peace) we have... JON MORRISON When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL There's always a possibility, no matter how small it is. And as long as the possibility is still the... BENING ANGGANI I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed t... LIN YUTANG Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Som... JEANNE D'ARC He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something ... NEIL GAIMAN We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To believe in your self is to have faith in everything you do .If you do not have faith,then your se... GARY F EVANS... The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherw... TOM STOPPARD It is not so much what you believe in that matters, it's more the way in which you
believe it and pr... LIN YUTANG If somebody asks whether you believe in the alien existence, we can answer 'Yes, I do'.
If the guy a... TOBA BETA It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Becau... WALLY AMOS I think this team is dangerous because they believe in each other. When we have that belief we're ha... PAUL SCHINTZIUS Sometimes you just have to step outside the box and take a leap of faith. You may not be able to see... AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. Al... MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what... MACEO PARKER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't nece... ALAN BALL It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you beli... ANNA HOWARD SHAW There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are workin... YAMI GAUTAM You must continue to believe with all your heart. Sometimes belief is all if takes to make something... MORGAN RHODES Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so despera... JENNY DOWNHAM Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON But I believe this: by and large, the United States ought to be able to choose for its President any... DWIGHT D EISENHOWER It's just been good coaching and good teamwork and good camaraderie and the belief that we can win. ... JAY FRANK Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not ne... BERNARD L. SCHWARTZ In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and ... URSULA K. LE GUIN But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or tw... LEMONY SNICKET My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we'... GILLIAN ANDERSON Sometimes you've got to believe in someone else's belief in you until your belief kicks in. LES BROWN There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it. SHIRLEY BOOTH Sometimes, all someone needs is for someone to believe in them. Be that person. Whether it is for yo... AKIROQ BROST We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts... TABATHA COFFEY My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we&... GILLIAN ANDERSON If you have a success in your life, why can't we hold on to that? Why can't that be good eno... JAKE PALTROW No matter how hard we try, we can never understand everything that another person has gone through o... DANIEL WILLEY I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm ... DAVID LEVITHAN If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yo... GEORGE E WOODBERRY If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in your... GEORGE E. WOODBERRY If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in your... ALEC BOURNE You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in o... CAROLINE KENNEDY It's hard to explain a case when there's no memory of a case. Scott truly did not remember what happ... BRIAN LANG If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call f... MARY PICKFORD The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hyp... CARL GUSTAV JUNG If we get away from that word and think about what is of value to us and what we believe in and what... JOSEPH POLISI If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or ... SHANNON L. ALDER A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a ... STEVE JOBS This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy ... MICHAEL KORDA If you want something bad enough if you really want it bad enough if you work for it long enough bel... LISA ADAMS We sometimes think that if we just "want" it enough or "love" it enough we will get what we are work... FAWN ARRINGTON
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BRANDON SANDERSON The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!” “The only honest things ... BRANDON SANDERSON But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm. BRANDON SANDERSON Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity. BRANDON SANDERSON When did you get so peppy?” she shouted. “Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly ... BRANDON SANDERSON I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity. BRANDON SANDERSON But you know what I think? I think you're looking for excuses to not let go. This thing, it's who yo... BRANDON SANDERSON But you know what I think? I think you're looking for excuses to not let go. This ting, it's who you... BRANDON SANDERSON Don’t tell anyone I said it?" I smiled. "I'll be quiet as a buttered snail sneaking through a... BRANDON SANDERSON To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself. BRANDON SANDERSON Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you’d be accustomed to it by now.” He ... BRANDON SANDERSON What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been ... BRANDON SANDERSON That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. BRANDON SANDERSON I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back. He stumbled beneath th... BRANDON SANDERSON This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again. BRANDON SANDERSON Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where... BRANDON SANDERSON Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service. BRANDON SANDERSON Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. BRANDON SANDERSON And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has... BRANDON SANDERSON Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses... BRANDON SANDERSON Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand ... BRANDON SANDERSON An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before. BRANDON SANDERSON I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to lo... BRANDON SANDERSON In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our ex... BRANDON SANDERSON If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the de... BRANDON SANDERSON Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect,... BRANDON SANDERSON There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." BRANDON SANDERSON Brightness...I believe you stray into sarcasm." "Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it... BRANDON SANDERSON ...Do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the ... BRANDON SANDERSON I told him that you were simply showing me the ways of court. Kind of like an…older brother.” BRANDON SANDERSON We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and ... BRANDON SANDERSON The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The... BRANDON SANDERSON Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without though... BRANDON SANDERSON Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other peo... BRANDON SANDERSON I died down at that chasm. Now you’ve got my vengeful spirit to deal with. BRANDON SANDERSON We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you wer... BRANDON SANDERSON She slumped toward the ground, but I grabbed her and heaved her onto my shoulder, then ran down the ... BRANDON SANDERSON In fact, the entire nature of this State seemed to highlight that political power was just an illusi... BRANDON SANDERSON Back in my State, I'm very close to being able to control the weather. I'll be all-powerful, once I'... BRANDON SANDERSON I’m good at doing things I’m not supposed to,” she said, then kicked the door open. BRANDON SANDERSON XinWey’s Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest ... BRANDON SANDERSON Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert. BRANDON SANDERSON On the three-hundredth anniversary of my birth, I finally managed to conquer the world. BRANDON SANDERSON Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." ... BRANDON SANDERSON