Quotes About Belief

Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.

I was lucky enough to take a chance on Arsenal.

My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

You've got to gamble on yourself. If you don't, no one else is going to. It's very hard when you're poor to turn down money. When you've got money, it's easy. When you're poor, you need money today. People take advantage of poor people.

I don't believe in getting lucky, I never have - luck is actually being ready to take advantage of an opportunity when it arises because you have the skill set you need and the drive and determination to do it.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

I am not afraid of anything. God will take care of everything.

We live in an abundant universe. Everything we need to take care of ourselves, those things are all around us. Don't focus on that economy. Don't believe that there's not enough for you.

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.

Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.

I'm probably a believer in abandoning too-big-to-fail firms or breaking them up in some way so that the system can try to take care of itself. I imagine you're not going to get there, and therefore, I suspect regulation is what's going to be required.

I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people than any other social-economic system, but that somehow we have to take care of people.

If your mind is not willing, everything will go. There's so much great power of our mind that we take for granted, and how we think and what positiveness can do.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

All the materialistic things I have been able to have over the last number of years are slowly being taken away from me. It's been really challenging but also it's been encouraging to myself to see what my God is actually doing.

Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

Nothing should be taken for granted, even if everybody believes it.

The trust of the mass population can no longer be taken for granted.

Confidence is sky high, but we're also all very grounded. We know, in football, nothing can be taken for granted.

I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

All it takes is one coach that believes in you.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

I feel like that's my foundation and my roots, what I believe in - no matter where life takes me, I'll always be the same guy and same person at heart.