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Quotes About Belief

Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and he shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.
~ Daniel Defoe
I then reflected, that as God, who was not only righteous but omnipotent, had thought fit thus to punish and afflict me, so He was able to deliver me: that if He did not think fit to do so, it was my unquestioned duty to resign myself absolutely and entirely to His will; and, on the other hand, it was my duty also to hope in Him, pray to Him, and quietly to attend to the dictates and directions of His daily providence.
~ Daniel Defoe
I did what I never had done in all my life—I kneeled down, and prayed to God to fulfil the promise to me, that if I called upon Him in the day of trouble, He would deliver me.
~ Daniel Defoe
Jesus, thou son of David!
~ Daniel Defoe
I could fill this account with the strange relations such people gave every day of what they had seen; and every one was so positive of their having seen what they pretended to see, that there was no contradicting them without breach of friendship, or being accounted rude and unmannerly on the one hand, and profane and impenetrable on the other.
~ Daniel Defoe
and I must be allowed to say of both, I hope without breach of Charity, that they heard Voices that never spake, and saw Sights that never appear'd;
~ Daniel Defoe
Albert Bandura, a Stanford psychologist who has done much of the research on self-efficacy, sums it up well: "People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong."24
~ Daniel Goleman
Ten muy presente que tu enfoque determina tu realidad».
~ Daniel Goleman
Hope, in a technical sense, is more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right. Snyder defines it with more specificity as "believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be." People
~ Daniel Goleman
The emotional mind takes its beliefs to be absolutely true, and so discounts any evidence to the contrary. That is why it is so hard to reason with someone who is emotionally upset: no matter the soundness of your argument from a logical point of view, it carries no weight if it is out of keeping with the emotional conviction of the moment.
~ Daniel Goleman
They believe that anyone can do well in school with the right effort.
~ Daniel Goleman
Optimism, like hope, means having a strong expectation that, in general, things will turn out all right in life, despite setbacks and frustrations.
~ Daniel Goleman
las creencias de las personas sobre sus propias habilidades tienen un profundo efecto sobre éstas. La habilidad no es un atributo fijo sino que, en este sentido, existe una extraordinaria variabilidad. Las personas que se sienten eficaces se recuperan prontamente de los fracasos y no se preocupan tanto por el hecho de que las cosas puedan salir mal sino que se aproximan a ellas buscando el modo de manejarlas».
~ Daniel Goleman
The emotional/rational dichotomy approximates the folk distinction between heart and head; knowing something is right in your heart is a different order of conviction - somehow a deeper kind of certainty - than thinking so with your rational mind.
~ Daniel Goleman
People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong."24 FLOW:
~ Daniel Goleman
Hope is always about the future. And it isn't always good news. Sometimes, hope can imprison us with belief or expectation that something will happen in the future to change our lives. Similarly hopelessness isn't always about despair. Hopelessness can bring us right into this very moment and answer all of life's most difficult questions. Who am I? Where am I? What does this mean? And what now?
~ Daniel Gottlieb
God told Abraham to leave his home and set for journey and to have faith of being taken care of. Not just an external journey, it was also a journey upon into oneself.
~ Daniel Gottlieb
People can have two different mindsets, she says. Those with a "fixed mindset" believe that their talents and abilities are carved in stone. Those with a "growth mindset" believe that their talents and abilities can be developed. Fixed mindsets see every encounter as a test of their worthiness. Growth mindsets see the same encounters as opportunities to improve.
~ Daniel H. Pink
everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.
~ Daniel Handler
I think I've always believed that there is one person in the universe who you're truly meant for–for whom you are truly meant–and the fact that sometimes there are two or even more people on the earth you can fall in love with really bothers me. It suggests that if you work hard you can be meant for anyone.
~ Daniel Handler
Everybody has a theory.
~ Daniel Handler
You know, despite all my world-weariness and cynicism, I think I've always believed that there is one person in the universe for whom you are truly meant - and the fact that sometimes there are two or even more people on the earth you can fall in love with really bothers me. It suggests that if you work hard you can be meant for anyone.
~ Daniel Handler
It is the presumed mission of all women, a quest for a man, and no amount of bloodshed can dissuade the myth. For a boy, people would say to her soon, in disbelief or even in admiration, and they would be all wrong.
~ Daniel Handler
But illusions die hard, and the brighter they are the longer they take adying.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin