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It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
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You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono
I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd.
In the past, U2 was trying to duck that.
Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo
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