Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

"Have you heard any Stockhausen?" Beecham was asked. "No, but I believe I have stepped in some.

Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.

Having convictions can be defined as being so thoroughly convinced that Christ and His Word are both objectively true and relationally meaningful that you act on your beliefs regardless of the consequences.

Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them.

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

He no playa the game, he no maka the rules.

Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to be connected at the present day by intermediate gradations whereas species were formerly thus connected.

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

He who has a why can deal with any what or how.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.

Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

Hope is not something you can just place in your back pocket or put your fingers around – it’s the belief in a world that has yet to exist.

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. And I love all of Octavia Butler's books. She's created some very complicated black heroines with a variety of belief systems. There are many great books out there, but those are a few of the ones that stand out.

I also feel stronger than I ever have. I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions and myself.

I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.