I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
Jack LaLanne

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar

Men freely believe that which they desire.
Julius Caesar

Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Julius Caesar

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise Pascal

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Blaise Pascal

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Blaise Pascal

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Noam Chomsky

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
Woody Allen

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody Allen

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord Byron

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
Lord Byron