If You Believe Quotes

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
- King Abdullah Ii

Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.
- Joe Abercrombie

If you believe everything you feel is an illusion then you're delusional. Your emotion is part you. You're made with it. Denying it and thinking it is all your mind, is denying your existence.
- Ann Marie Aguilar

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

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.
- Mohamed Alfayed

Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.
- Paulo Coelho

If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you.
- Paulo Coelho

This is the most dangerous of obstacles because it has a kind of saintly aura about it: renouncing joy and conquest. But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
- Paulo Coelho

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
- Paulo Coelho

But I think it has to do with what you believe about yourself. If you believe you're damned, then you are. But if you don't...
- Cassandra Clare

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
- Mario Andretti

If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.
- Rollo Armstrong

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
- Saint Augustine

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo

If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.
- Steve Maraboli

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

I am not a perfectionist...if you believe that your best is good enough, you will find happiness. The unknown can be exciting and full of opportunity but you have to be involved and you have to be able to evolve.
- Alice Bag

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
- James M Barrie

Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.
- Andre Benjamin

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
- Dale Carnegie

I'm not saying it isn't habit forming, but it's much milder than tobacco, alcohol, or cocaine. Law enforcement says it's addictive, but that's ridiculous. If you believe that, then pachinko is far more dangerous.
- Haruki Murakami

You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this."
"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.
- Haruki Murakami

Its Barnum & Bailey world
just as phony as it can be,
But it would't be make-believe
if you believed in me
- Haruki Murakami

If you believe in something because of miracles,
then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.
- Toba Beta

If you believe in the idea of true friends,
then your heart is vulnerable to betrayal.
- Toba Beta

If you believe what you say, words become reality.
- Ingrid Betancourt

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

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

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

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

All things are possible if you believe..
- Candace C Bowen

You must have loved her awfully," I said, realizing even as I spoke that I made it sound as if Fenella were already dead. "Yes, sometimes very much," Porcelain said reflectively, "-and sometimes not at all." She must have seen my startled reaction. "Love's not some big river that flows on and on forever, and if you believe it is, you're a bloody fool. It can be dammed up until nothing's left but a trickle..." "Or stopped completely, I added.
- Alan Bradley

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
- Louis D Brandeis

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you.
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
- David Brin

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

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?
- Dan Brown

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
- Paul Bryant

Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods."
"Do you?"
"I believe they are not here, yes. It's a faith of sorts.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold

I guess we all can't help peeking at our own imperfections, just like we can't help scratching a scab that keeps itching. When those imperfections are pasted across your face like that, exaggerated and magnified, it's hard to find all those good thoughts you have about yourself. If you believe those distorted reflections too deeply, you'll never get out of the maze.
- Neal Shusterman

If you believe Leondard, this is how Hell breaks people down -- by permitting them to act out to greater and greater extremes, becoming vicious caricatures of themselves, earning fewer and fewer rewards, until they finally realize their folly. Perhaps, I muse over the telephone, that is the one effective lesson which one learns in Hell.
- Chuck Palahniuk

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
- Anthony Burgess

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.
- Candace Bushnell

The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance.
- Deb Caletti

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
- William James

If you believe in magic,' I (Kate) said.
'If it exists,' said Joanna, 'it doesn't matter a toss whether you believe in it or not.
- Jennifer Lee Carrell

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.
- Kristin Cast

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, "If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles."
- Ray Charles

It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.
- Stephen King

If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
- Adam Clayton

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.
- Hillary Clinton

So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.
- Mindy Cohn

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.
- Ray Conniff

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

- Gregory Corso

If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
- Miley Cyrus

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.
- Anthony J Dangelo

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.
- Jean Claude Van Damme

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.
- Jean Claude Van Damme

Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.
- Sylvia Day

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

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
- Linda Ellerbee

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
- Warren Ellis

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
- Richard L Evans

I'm not a violent man."
Joshua, Jerico and Evan choked dramatically and began coughing.
Remy snorted. "And if you believe that, Saria, I've got a sinkhole I can sell you for farmland."
"You're not helping my cause," Drake complained.
"Ignore them. I always do," Saria advised.
- Christine Feehan

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.
- Bob Feller

Reuben says in many cultures, the wedding ceremony and all of it's rituals are much the same as a funeral: a transition into another phase of life.
It is like dying and being reborn, if you believe in the afterlife. If you don't believe in an afterlife, then you are toast
- Suzanne Finnamore

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

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

Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other peeople's belief superstition?
- Jostein Gaarder

If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!
- Jostein Gaarder

The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. If you believe that we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world, then I think my supporters believe that I am a messenger who can deliver that message around the world in a way that no other candidate can do.
- Barack Obama

There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise.
- Neil Gaiman

Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say them. You had better be careful what you look up, which words, which names. Jane Clifford, in The Odd Woman
- Gail Godwin

[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.
- Elizabeth Goudge

If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid - but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.
- Tom Robbins

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.
- Jonny Greenwood

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

Even if you believe that every human being harbors an immortal soul, the problem of responsibility remains: I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of a psychopath.
- Sam Harris

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.
- Jeff Hawkins

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
- Lillian Hellman

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
- Napolean Hill

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

How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation.
- Douglas Hofstadter

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
- Mahalia Jackson

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
- Victoria Jackson

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.
- Jasper Johns

If you believe in yourself that is all that matters. Set your own limitations. Don't let others do that for you.
- Danielle Joseph

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

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

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.
- Guy Kawasaki

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
- Jack Kemp

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.
- Charles Krauthammer

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

Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can...
- Melissa Marr

Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.
- W Somerset Maugham

My technique is don't believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
- Terence Mckenna

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
- A J Mclean

If you believe you can read you can
- Lisa Mcmann

Read if you believe
- Lisa Mcmann

If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.
- Arthur Miller

If you believe we shouldn't have done it, then you also believe that, in the light of history, the human race shouldn't have existed. Because then all the love and happiness and goodness in this world can't outweigh the life of a single child.
- Harry Mulisch

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.
- Joan Lowery Nixon

...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
- Flannery O Connor

Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone.
Alone, alone! But there is happiness in alone, if you believe you have chosen it.
- Joyce Carol Oates

There is more good than bad. Life and love win if you let them. If you believe in them.
- Liza Palmer

You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it. If you believe then all things are possible.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Negative thoughts...they're only true if you believe them.
- Timothy Pina

Things will never get better if you believe they won't
- Katie Piper

Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
- Anne Rice

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.
- Mitt Romney

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
- Lord Salisbury

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.
- Sydney Schanberg

I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.
- Tim Scott

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.
- Brent Scowcroft

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.
- Connie Sellecca

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
- Tupac Shakur

When something horrible happens, your brain doesn't process the memories right. It stores everything-- sounds, pain, smells, feelings-- all mixed up. It doesn't matter if you believed it or it made sense; it gets stored.
- Cherise Sinclair

If you believe in God, then He exists.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

...because love can come, if you believe in it and behave as if it exists. That was the case, too, with free will; with perhaps, fath of any sort; and love was a sort of faith, was it not?
- Alexander Mccall Smith

Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?
- Zadie Smith

If you believe in God, trust that the Most High will get you through the day. If you are a commonsensical individual, step into the actuality of building this day with your own hands, for you are the architect of this day. But most are categorized as exiguous individuals, so believe in your sciolism, to guide you through the day.
- Lionel Suggs

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
- Ice T

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.
- Amber Tamblyn

There is no such thing as a victimless crime, and people should be allowed to do as they please with their own bodies and with other consenting adults. If you believe otherwise, then you are an enemy of freedom.
- Michel Templet

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

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
- Denis Waitley

I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.
- Mort Walker

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.
- Paul Walker

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

-You're pretty hard-boiled, Tinker Bell.
-Call me that name again and you'll be wondering how your bollocks wound up lodged in your windpipe--from below. Just because we don't get to your side of things much anymore doesn't mean we don't know anything. 'If you believe in fairies, clap your hands!' If you believe in fairies, kiss my rosy pink arse is more like it. Now are you going to shut your gob or not?
- Tad Williams

If you believe in resurrection, you believe that the living God will put his world to rights and that if God wants to do that in the future, it is right to try to anticipate that by whatever means in the present.
- N T Wright

If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.
- Michael Zaslow