Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.

Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.

Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.

Passionate leaders driven by passionate beliefs draw passionate followers.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.

People do things for love and belief and passion, not just because they're paid to do it.

People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.

People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

People will often say "You can't change other people." My research shows this societal belief is not only dis-empowering, it is scientifically false.

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

Pretty Powerful symbolises my belief that all women are pretty, and with the right tools, are empowered to a higher level of pretty - it's about being confident and about being who you are

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.

Random? You'€™d almost think we were dealing with an identifiable enemy motivated by a distinct ideology that is drawn verbatim from a particular belief system'€™s scriptures. Nah . . .

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety, not loosening it. All to often, the Stoics point out, things will not turn out for the best.

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.