Quotes about Belief
I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.
— William Golding
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
— William Golding
If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
— William Hazlitt
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
— William Hazlitt
I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and the practical malignity of man.
— William Hazlitt
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
— William Hazlitt
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
— William Hazlitt
We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.
— William Hazlitt
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
— William James
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
— William James
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
— William James
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
— William James