Quotes About Belief

More people worship the rising than the setting sun

It sounded a bit like his mother, a woman who'd lied to him about the existence of Santa Claus and was therefore not to be trusted on matters of any importance.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

You are and will become that which you think about most of the time.

At its core, creative confidence is about believing in your ability to create change in the world around you.

Great groups are more optimistic than realistic. They believe they can do what no one else has done before. "And the optimists, even when their good cheer is unwarranted, accomplish more," says Warren.

It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know for sure that ain't so" Mark Twain

The Caliphate produces only one thing of genuine excellence, and that product is fanaticism.

No atheists in foxholes, they say. I think that, given the power of the Holy Spirit as manifested in the Glenlivet distillery, there shall soon be only good Roman Catholics afloat. Well . . . and perhaps the odd Presbyterian. Now if only I can find something suitable to bless for the benefit of Sinbad

People need foundation myths.

It's like picking the place you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.' Sullenly Judith said, `I don't believe I have a lucky dart,' and her mother cast an unhappy smile her way and said, `You will, though.

Right up front, let me pass on an important lesson I've learned about the role of assumption and belief in our lives. It demonstrates our need for the discipline of philosophy, in an unusual way.

Difficulties, disappointments, discouragements, and suffering are a part of every work experience, but they need not be seen as obstacles to God's purposes in our lives.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

Say thank you, he thought. Say it and keep saying it until you believe it.

He was a realist with too much fervor and not enough reverie. He always remained pragmatic in a place that had too much use for superstition. That's enough to ruin any man.

He was a realist with too much fervor and not enough reverie. He always remained pragmatic in a place that had too much use for superstition.

Eddie asks, So what next? And Jesus, his eyes dark but laced with a hint of mercy, the thorn scars just barely visible at his hairline, says, Damned if I know.

Trust is a great force multiplier.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....