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Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

Changing behaviours begins with evolving beliefs.

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.

Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief

Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi go to the White House for dinner, and the immediate belief they had is, "Oh, they're gonna smoke Donald Trump. This is not even a fair fight. Trump doesn't even know what's coming.

Christians and Muslims share the belief that they are the fortunate recipient of the final God message.

Combine practice with belief.

Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I, Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief- Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die Mocking at all that passes their belief.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me.

Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

Contrary to popular belief, the moment we land in Heaven we don't immediately know everything! If we did, we'd be God Himself - all-knowing.

Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

Contrary to economists' beliefs, the informal sectors of the world's economies, in total, are predominant, and the institutionalized, monetized sectors grow out of them and rest upon them, rather than the reverse.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to something like a heavyweight fight, and I'll be photographed, so that people have this conception that I go out a lot.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that "speak" about the basic nature of their relationship.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow — which is not to say that I'm not open-minded about sex.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.

Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.