Belief Quotes

I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.

Innovation is an outgrowth of initiative, and initiative - taking positive actions in a belief that your actions can make a difference - is a big part of confidence.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

My belief, through my experiences, is that the world in which we live is but an illusionary world, a world that one day we will leave behind as we travel on toward our destiny and toward reality.

Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

I just think it's better to have ideas. I mean, you can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier, people die for them, people kill for them.

I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

George W. Bush was great on the belief that America was the solution to the world's problems, not the problem, and was a great defender, believer.

It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people...

Those who are religious or who have any beliefs have so much to choose from.

So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.

Everyone seems to be searching and yearning for answers whatever they may be. And that ends up being some kind of spiritual or religious belief.

It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.

There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.

You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.

As a man believes, so he will act.

I was very concerned about helping animals improve their situations. But that was out of love. It wasn't political or out of a belief that animals had rights.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

The core of the American set of beliefs has remained pretty constant.

It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life.

Mind, word and act; all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play; that is the genuine path.

As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.

There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.

No one can change your beliefs for you, nor can they be forced upon you from without.

You must learn to deal with your own beliefs directly or you will be forced to deal with them indirectly.

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

Believe in everything you do cause if you don't have self-belief, you'll be clueless.

I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves

Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.

Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

Belief is only the beginning.

Equations are the devil's sentences.

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others'.

I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.

One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.