Belief Quotes - Page 44

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

Belief traps or frees us.

My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)

My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.

We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

I don't want idiots in my audience. So if me coming forward with what my beliefs are is what you need to hear to not be a fan anymore, that's great. That means next time I show up in whatever said city, your dumb ass won't be there.

I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with them. I find I can get along very well with Jews or even...' The P of Papists was already formed, and the word was obliged to come out as Pindoos.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

You can succeed beyond the past, but not beyond your belief

Belief creates behaviors.

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.

Trump and I have a lot in common, and that is a belief in the American dream because we both have lived it. I think it's what animates our president-elect more than anything else, is a belief in the boundless potential of every American to live the American dream. And, I think it comes from the fact that we both grew up in it, and both saw it. And in our own ways, we both lived it.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

Belief forages, moving from pasture to pasture.

The neutralizer to fear is self belief.

It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.