Albert Ellis Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

  Albert Ellis

  Real, World, Belief

• For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

  Albert Ellis

  Art, Real, Self Esteem

• When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

  Albert Ellis

  People, Belief, Preference

• People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance - all healthy, negative feelings without which people couldn't exist. But then they add, "I absolutely must succeed and must be loved by significant persons, and if I don't, it's terrible and I'm no good." Those are irrational beliefs. As long as people keep them, they'll be terrified of life and will put themselves down when they get rejected.

  Albert Ellis

  Regret, Frustration, Long

  "The Prince of Reason". Interview with Robert Epstein, www.psychologytoday.com. January 1, 2001.

• Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.

  Albert Ellis

  People, Belief, Study

• There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

  Albert Ellis

  Sex, Men, Belief

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