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Quotes About Belief

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
~ Lana Del Rey
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
~ Meryl Streep
Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.
~ Napoleon Hill
Jesus cares more about desire than about competence
~ Mike Yaconelli
Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.
~ Ernest Holmes
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
~ Napoleon Hill
And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
Men freely believe that which they desire.
~ Julius Caesar
If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.
~ John C. Maxwell
If you believe it and desire it, you can acquire it.
~ Robert G. Allen
You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
~ Hu Shih
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
~ Napoleon Hill
Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The moment you say, or , the skies will open for you and the non- physical energies begin instantly to orchestrate the manifestation of your desire.
~ Esther Hicks
Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
~ Mark Batterson
If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.
~ Eric Hoffer
You never need to defend yourself or your desires to anyone, as those inner feelings are Spirit speaking to you. Those thoughts are sacred, so don't ever let anyone trample on them.
~ Wayne Dyer
But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
~ Marco Rubio