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Belief Quotes
"It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying."
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"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
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"He does not believe who does not live according to his belief."
"The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure."
"I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it."
"Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them."
"Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before."
"But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything."
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
"It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system."
"Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence."
"It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source."
"When superstitions infect you, it controls your mind."
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
"It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology."
"My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife."
"Believe in your capabilities, for within you lies the power to overcome any obstacle."
"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts."
"Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated."
"One can win only if he believes himself to be a winner."
"I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out."
"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't."
"I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals."
"You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day."
"Your dreams will only take you as far as your faith in them."
"Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts."
"Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated."
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
"The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all."
"It feels great to know that whatever you need to achieve your dreams are in you. Whatever the spider needs to make a cobweb is not in the housefly. Look to yourself, you have what it takes to weave your success!"
"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."
"Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary."
"There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs."
"I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations."
"It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us."
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