Quotes About Belief

Who cares, anymore? Nobody believes anything politicians say. It's not like they're working for us, all they do after they get into office is run for reelection. Money, money, money, that's all it's about.

Mom says good health is like buying an appliance at a garage sale. You do the best you can to make sure it's in good shape and then leave the rest to God.

God would be there with it, in every moment, sure as the North Star.

Hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts.

As my grandmother always said, there was only one perfect person to ever walk this earth, and God took him back.

You can't say as much as you can in writing, but you can say what you say with great conviction.

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

Actually, when you look more closely at the sentence, it contains three separate cues: 1. You are part of this group. 2. This group is special; we have high standards here. 3. I believe you can reach those standards. These signals provide a clear message that lights up the unconscious brain: Here is a safe place to give effort.

You are part of this group. This group is special. I believe you can reach those standards.

These groups, who by all rights should know what they stand for, devote a surprising amount of time telling their own story, reminding each other precisely what they stand for—then repeating it ad infinitum.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

I invented the pelican, but probably not the acorn or unicorn.

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

In their religion they are so uneven,That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

don't think it occurred to me in 1961 that the White House might be lying about what the president had been told.

I was exactly like the various White House officials who testified later during the Watergate hearings that they had believed—in the words of their boss, President Nixon—that "when the president does it, it is not illegal.

Neither of us joined the extremely generous retirement plan RAND offered. Neither of us believed, in our late twenties, we had a chance of collecting on it.

In the face of an enemy believed to be Hitlerian in savagery and armed with a nuclear force believed (incorrectly) to be superior to our own, all these concerns and considerations of safety and high-level control gave way.

Self-esteem is the difference between where you believe you are and where you think you should be compared to others. If they match, you tend to feel good about yourself. If they don't match, you feel inferior.

Is it true? (Is the stressful or negative thought true?) 2. Can I absolutely know that it's true? 3. How do I react when I believe that thought? 4. Who would I be without the thought? Or, how would I feel if I didn't have the thought?

Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.

events that challenge our optimistic beliefs can sometimes make us more rather than less optimistic.