Belief Quotes

"Belonging to a family is a natural and vital component of life, and every child deserves to be a member of a loving and nurturing family."

- Ronald Reagan

"Adoption is not about finding children for families, its about finding families for children."

- Joyce Maguire Pavao

"The true republic—men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."

- Susan B. Anthony

""The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.""

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."

- Clarence Darrow

"September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life."

- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair

""No man is above the law, and no man is below it.""

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Friends give us the blessing of belonging."

- Megan Haave

"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking."

- Steve Jobs

"I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random."

- Steve Jobs

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

- Steve Jobs

"You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you."

- Katherine Johnson

"To find something, anything, a great truth or a lost pair of glasses, you must first believe there will be some advantage in finding it."

- Jude Law as Jack Burden

"If you lose faith, you lose all."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship."

- R.C. Sproul

"Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back."

- Herodotus

"I created Jiu-Jitsu, what is now referred to as Jiu-Jitsu, which is exactly the best fighting system that exists."

- Helio Gracie

"Jiu jitsu I believe is the most efficient way of fighting in any situation, in a streetfight, in a ring, inside an elevator, anywhere."

- Renzo Gracie

"I don’t believe in the Constitution because I’m American. I’m American because I believe in the Constitution."

- J.S.B. Morse

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

- Abraham Lincoln

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

- Adlai Stevenson

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

- Nelson Mandela

"The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard."

- Gaylord Nelson

"The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it."

- Chief Joseph

"The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth."

- Chief Seattle

"The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth."

- Marlee Matlin

"Nothing is impossible in this world if you have made a choice."

"Wrestling is the art of turning sweat into triumph, pain into power, and doubt into unwavering belief."

"Belief is the first step to victory. Doubt is the first step to defeat."