Belief Quotes

There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology.

Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.

If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

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.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

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.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

Know what you want and believe that you can have it.

The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.

The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

I think it's what animates our president-elect [Donald Trump] more than anything else, is a belief in the boundless potential of every American to live the American dream.

The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!

Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

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

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

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.

Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

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

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.

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

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.

Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

Repentance is belief in action.

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

What else is belief but direction?

There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.