Quotes About Belief

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

There never was night that had no morn.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

Don't leave before the miracle happens!

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it it opinion that uses the force.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.