Quotes About Belief

I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

I believe in sexual monogamy, but I don't believe in emotional monogamy.

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

Boys don't cry—or at least that's what everybody's supposed to believe.

I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.