Quotes About Belief

Pray to God, but row towards shore.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

It disturbed Eve, though, that Claire believed that a young female detective would be more motivated than a man to investigate the sexual assault of a woman. Was there any merit to that belief?

Ian believed that all actors were crazy. They had to be if they were any good. The truly great ones had to have a manageable version of split personality disorder. How else could they pretend to be someone else so fully that we not only believe it but we invest ourselves emotionally in what they are experiencing?

His father taught him that standing up for what you believe in comes with a price but that backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying.

Most of the time, it's not whether or not you have a gun in your hand that matters," his father said. "It's what you stand for and how strong you stand for it.

At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.

We pray, those of us who believe; those of us who don't believe ask, Let me go quickly and peacefully into the night.

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

In America, everything seemed fixable, and in Japan, difficult problems were to be endured. Shoganai, shoganai. How many times had he heard those words? It cannot be helped. His mother had apparently hated that expression, and suddenly he understood her rage against this cultural resignation that violated her beliefs and wishes. Book 3, page 456

Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.

Those who don't expect to win, don't win. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

People's inflated belief in the importance of personality traits and dispositions, together with their failure to recognize the importance of situational factors in affecting behavior, has been termed the "fundamental attribution error

people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

My belief is that we have only one life, that this is all there is.

Finiteness is not the only example in string theory of a conjecture that is widely believed but so far unproved.

My people, my people, what can I say; say what I can. I saw it but didn't believe it; I didn't believe what I saw. Are we gonna live together? Together are we gonna live?

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

The Jews proposed the ridiculous story that the guards had fallen asleep. Obviously, they were grasping at straws. But the point is this: they started with the assumption that the tomb was vacant! Why? Because they knew it was!

Wishful thinking doesn't change reality.

But your love goes beyond that. You can know all these things about your wife and not be in love with her and put your trust in her, but you do. So the decision goes beyond the evidence, yet it is there also on the basis of the evidence. So it is with falling in love with Jesus. To have a relationship with Jesus Christ goes beyond just knowing the historical facts about him, yet it's rooted in the historical facts about him.