Best 4234 quotes in «belief quotes» category

My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

My opinion is borne out of my childhood, my faith, my beliefs. That marriage is between one man and one woman.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and that this is still the case among the most civilized races at the present day.

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than of the actual structure of nature, that they act. Yet, it is upon nature itself that they do act, and it is nature itself that acts upon them, nurturing or destroying them.

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Neural science, which is the study of the brain, tells us that we have up to one billion brain cells with thousands of branches that communicate with each other much like a complex highway system. The more we attend to something, or the more we engage in certain behaviors, the more those particular cells communicate and the pathways between them deepen. This is how our values, our beliefs, and our motivations are actually formed.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

No longer what your belief about yourself is - if you've always been poor, if you've always been overweight, if you've always had rotten relationships, if your luck hasn't been good, if you don't attract into your life the things you want, if you've always been shy or always been aggressive - whatever it is and however long you've held it, the belief that you can't change it is not aligned with Source. Source says you can be anything. You can do anything. You're infinite.

No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief in God.