Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.

It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.

It’s been very well demonstrated that our belief system effects how we behave and how we perform. . . It also effects our lifestyle, so that if we don’t believe that we can help ourselves, we probably cannot. If we don’t believe that positive information is useful to our health and well being, it probably won’t be.

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith.

It seems like everything is so polarized. You get the caricatures of people, the caricatures of their beliefs. "I hate this kind of person" or "I love this kind of person." But actually, there's a lot of great things about them. There are things to like. There's possibility of change.

It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.

It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus.

It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

It's OK to have beliefs, just don't believe in them.

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.

it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.

It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history. ... You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs. ... let me make something clear.

It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.

It used to be that your rights were infringed upon if the government punished or threatened you for expressing your sincerest beliefs. Now, your rights are infringed upon if you want something but someone refuses to buy it for you.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

I usually save these answers [on the institution of marriage] for my Barbara Walters Special, but she didn't call so I've never been engaged, despite popular belief.

I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.

I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or what Jesus is, and unable to see the future.

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

I went in there with 100% belief, even though I knew how great the champion was, I just had to believe in myself.

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where God says before you were formed in the womb, I knew you, and so for my first time in public life, I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.