“Steve Rogers: Stark, are you seeing any of this? Tony Stark: Seeing, still working on believing.”— Joss Whedon, Zak Penn, Tony Stark / Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr., imdb.com
“Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it!”— Caroline Thompson, Tim Burton, Jack Skellington (voice), Chris Sarandon, imdb.com
“Boy, it is so hard when someone sees something you do not want them to see.”— Jill Soloway, Mort Pfefferman, Jeffrey Tambor, imdb.com
“Affirming the desired intention as if it’s already happened, affirmative prayer teaches us to program the mind about what to expect.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“They had nothing but a dream. No one believed in those days that these kind of dreams could come true. But they kept on believing. And Michael never let the world turn him around from his dreams.”— Al Sharpton, youtube.com
“Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect…”— Marc Hack, goodreads.com
“People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possi…”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“Deep in her heart, she wasn’t sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed…normal.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“I used to pray for answers, but now I’m praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.”— Mother Teresa, harvbishop.com
“...please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough. And I will always believe the same about you.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“If you love someone, you believe she is the best person in the world. She doesn’t see herself like that, and that’s the only thing he wants to show her. That’s love. He wants her to love herself the same way he loves her.”— Robert Pattinson, rob-patt.tumblr.com
“I don’t want to be so scared all the time. So alone. I want to believe something can be worth it. Worth the pain. Worth the risk.”— Hannah Harrington, amazon.com
“But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they mad…”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, goodreads.com
“People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.”— Albert Bandura, nytimes.com