Quotes About Belief

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.

My 'I can' comes from confidence really, because I'm not an overly confident person.

I know I sound overly optimistic, but you know me, I've always been an optimistic guy.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.

Every time you come out of the team I know you don't just disappear, you don't just become a bad player overnight.

I scored nine goals for Hull and a hat-trick for Scotland in the first half of the season, you don't do that and then become an average player overnight, so I know I can contribute to West Ham.

Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they're right about the future, that's a claim only a fool would make.

I believe that 'ego' is much overused term.

Most people, they get overwhelmed by the religious stories, the nationalist stories, by the economic stories of the day, and take these stories to be the reality.

With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.

Continuing stasis is a consequence of the first flawed assumption at the heart of MBO: the ingenuous belief that success of the overall organization can be viewed as a simple arithmetic combination of lower-level objectives. The assumption is almost impossible to implement unless nearly everything is in steady state.

There is probably no job on earth for which an ability to believe six impossible things before breakfast is more of a requirement than software project management.

It's no accident that marketing professionals often describe it in military language: capturing market share, penetrating the customer base, defeating competitors. It can be declarative, propagandistic, uninvolving. But in its best moments it can also encapsulate a belief, a set of values, even a religion.

An old Buddhist saying: BELIEVE nothing because it is said to be of divine origin. BELIEVE nothing because a wise man said it. BELIEVE nothing because its belief is generally held. BELIEVE nothing because it is written in ancient books. BELIEVE nothing because someone else believes it. BUT believe only what you yourself know to be true.

Sincerity is all that counts -- it's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can't all be right.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful ' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

There are two different ways to live life—the "I think I can" life, and the "I know I can't, but I know God can" life.

T]here [is] no limit to what might not be achieved by an alliance between an imperial monarchy and revelations, if truly believed to be heaven-sent, of a prophet.

That you feel something to be right may have its cause in your never having thought much about yourself and having blindly accepted what has been labelled right since your childhood.' —Friedrich Nietzsche

A perpetual forge of idols.'35 So Calvin had described the human mind.

Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.

True strength manifested itself not in the exercise of power, but in the willingness to give it up. So Tolkien, as a Christian, believed. It was why, in the last year of