Belief Quotes - Page 14

• In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Believe, Second Chance

  Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

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• Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Work, Friendly, Sticks

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

  Thomas Paine

  Happiness, Faith, Respect

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

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• Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

  Seneca the Younger

  Workout, Philosophical, Exercise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Fear, Philosophy

  "Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Belief creates the actual fact.

  William James

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Philosophical

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• Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

  Denis Waitley

  Pads, Launching, Power Of Belief

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• Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Believe In Yourself

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Decision, Fuel, Transcendentalism

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.147, Conari Press

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• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You can have anything you want

  Jenifer Lewis

  Confidence, Fashion, Singleness Of Purpose

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• You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Confidence

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• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Atheist, Believe

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• The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

  Richard DeVos

  Motivational, Positive, Dance

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• Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Faith, Believe

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• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Teacher, Religious

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• Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.

  Rumi

  Believe, Matter, Absurdity

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 18: "The Three Fish", p. 196, 1995.

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• Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

  Golda Meir

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Positive, Courage, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 02, 2015

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• You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Faith, Freedom, Believe

  Prejudices, Third Series ch. 14 (1922)

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• What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

  Ezra Pound

  Inspirational, Life, Helping Others

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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