Beliefs Quotes
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I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.
George Alec Effinger
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I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
Flannery O'Connor
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Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.
Ben Affleck
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Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.
Scott Westerfeld
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In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.
James Anthony Froude
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Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
Clancy Brown
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It doesn't hurt me. I'm not governed by the fear of what other people say. Events don't elicit feelings; I think beliefs elicit feelings, and I understand what my beliefs are and I know how I am.
Chip Kelly
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Live for who and what you love and never compromise your beliefs for anything or anyone.
Zayn Malik One Direction
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Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world.
Al Duncan
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Our beliefs invariably drive our decision making.
Craig Detweiler
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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus.
Alan Chambers
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Passionate leaders driven by passionate beliefs draw passionate followers.
Albert Mohler
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All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones. I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong.
Chapman Cohen
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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
Katharine Hepburn
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Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Beliefs help us tap the richest resources deep within us, creating & directing these resources to support our desired outcome
Anthony Robbins
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
Jonathan Swift
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"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
Marianne Williamson
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There are fewer and fewer philosophies that everyone subscribes to. We don't seem to have as many beliefs in common as we used to. Also, we interact much more online. We have all these gadgets to help us manage different aspects of our lives.
Elaine Equi
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Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.
Marcel Proust
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I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.
Michael Ende