Quotes About Belief

It takes a special conviction to decide to go against the crowd and to know what is right and to act upon it.

I believe in 'Hard Livin'.' The song has a lot of potential. I sang it on the road for about a year before I put it on an album. The crowds really seemed to like it.

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

Against any team, confidence is crucial.

Saviours get crucified.

My confidence never gets crushed. Whatever happens, my attitude doesn't change.

I've never had a celebrity crush! I don't believe in those, really. I feel like you have to get to know the person before you start to feel anything like that. People always think they know celebrities, but how can you when you've never met them?

It took me two years to get a title shot off a split-decision loss to Dominick Cruz that the UFC told me they thought I won.

When I was playing in Santa Cruz or Mogi Mirim, they told me I was not the best. Nobody believed in me. The others would always be the top stars. But I did not let that get me down.

When Mom died I couldn't stop crying, but both Angie and I really believe she's in a better place.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

I've always been fascinated by cults even as a kid.

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

It's important that we challenge the culture of low expectations. You need to believe every child can do well.

In many cultures, a total eclipse of the Sun predicts cataclysms and bad events.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

I've always seen the cup as half-full.

I can cure AIDS, and I will.

I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try.

Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a curse.

Perhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility.