Quotes About Belief

Tevekkül Allah'a! Köpe?in efendisi varsa kurdun da Tanr?'s? vard?r.

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

There is no story that is not true.

When people have the opportunity to collect information from the world, they are more likely to select information that supports their preexisting attitudes, beliefs, and actions.

motivation comes from feeling—knowledge isn't enough to motivate change. But motivation also comes from confidence. The Elephant has to believe that it's capable of conquering the change. And there are two routes to building people's confidence so that they feel "big" relative to their challenge. You can shrink the change or grow your people (or, preferably, both).

It seems some CEOs who pay extremely large acquisition premiums Ã¢â'¬Â¦ come to believe their own press.

When you engineer early successes, what you're really doing is engineering hope. Hope is precious to a change effort. It's Elephant fuel.

he didn't need to create new believers so much as he needed to unleash the believers he already had.

the growth mindset can be taught and that it can change lives.

we've seen that a credible idea makes people believe. An emotional idea makes people care. And in this chapter we'll see that the right stories make people act.

Entrepreneurs don't seem to believe that forecasting is worth the bother: One survey found that 60% of Inc. 500 CEOs had not even written business plans before launching their companies. To

instill hope and optimism and excitement

Because identities are central to the way people make decisions, any change effort that violates someone's identity is likely doomed to failure. (That's why it's so clumsy when people instinctively reach for "incentives" to change other people's behavior.)

In the last few chapters, we've seen that a credible idea makes people believe. An emotional idea makes people care. And in this chapter we'll see that the right stories make people act.

What should a Pegasus person do in this situation?

The company wants to sell you more shampoo, your friend doesn't, so she gets more trust points.

The existence of the devil is so clearly taught in the Bible that to doubt it is to doubt the Bible itself.

Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

authentic followers of Christ follow Him in the midst of a hostile and toxic environment.

I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him—into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable?