#believe

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. ↗

— James Wolfe

#blood #bought #cheerfully #conquer #conquest

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#aspires #believes #dangerous #example #greater

We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me. ↗

— Ron Wood

#believe #brilliant #clearing #devoted #great

I believe in that connection between freedom and the city. ↗

— George Woodcock

#between #city #connection #freedom #i

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#may #seek #understand #you

So, yes, I believe in angels, absolutely, I do. ↗

— Della Reese

#angels #believe #i #i believe #i believe in

I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#believe #i #i do #know #naturally

The king was silent. "Ents!" he said at length. "Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to understand the marvel of the trees, I think. I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of the strange places, and walk visible under the Sun." "You should be glad," Théoden King," said Gandalf. "For not only the little life of Men is now endangered, but the life also of those thing which you have deemed the matter of legend. You are not without allies, even if you know them not." "Yet also I should be sad," said Théoden. "For however the fortune of war shall go, may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth? ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#hope #imagination #inspiration #war #imagination

There are so many stupid things that steal that purpose from us. The stupid things that you believe a lie that we ‘re not as important as we really are. That our life isn’t as important as it really is. It’s important to the people that you love, it’s important to the people that you will love in the future, it’s important to the world around you and it’s so important that you fulfill the purpose that only you can fulfill the way that you can fulfill that. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#believe #encouragement #flyleaf #future #important

There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it? ↗

— Suzanne Weyn

#inspire #magorium #inspirational