Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Tacitus

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Maxwell Maltz

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
Eli Whitney

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.
Josh McDowell

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse

I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.
Jimmy Page

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Mikhail Bakunin

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Walter Lippmann

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Paul Valery

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.
Jose Mourinho

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.
Ice T

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
Erykah Badu

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
Wilbur Wright

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
William Ames

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.
Siobhan Fahey

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.
Floyd Abrams

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.
Leo Burnett

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
Mario Puzo

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.
James Brown