Quotes About Beliefs

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

My family had liberal positions.

I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.

I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast.

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.

"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

It doesn't hurt me. I'm not governed by the fear of what other people say. Events don't elicit feelings; I think beliefs elicit feelings, and I understand what my beliefs are and I know how I am.

If you change your negative beliefs and substitute them with positive ones , it'll delete a lot of problems in your life.

Make Peace With Your Past so it does not spoil your present. Your past does not define your future, your actions and beliefs do.

It may come as a severe shock if you havent given much thought to this subject beforebut our precious, cast-in-stone, objective beliefs are often totally in contrast to any reality. Or, more accurately, they are our perception of reality, rather than reality itself.

Human beings have used their incredible abilities to develop a staggering array of limiting beliefs, justifications and excuses for every occasion. What a waste!

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs

If it weren't for our illusions we'd be free from deceptions, and life free from any interests.

Cultural predilections are not to be confused with theological absolutes. The former are preferences - the latter are immutable.

Face your past without regret, handle your present with confidence, prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear, don't believe your doubts and never doubt your beliefs. Life is wonderful if you know how to live.

It takes a great of courage to live according to your principles and values that are behind them, and to tolerate the pain, the isolation, and the anxiety of being different from other people, of being creative, of living a unique existence; the courage to face death with equanimity. To stand by one's beliefs is part of that, too. It takes courage to stand behind one's beliefs when they run counter to a society or a group or pressures from other people.

Be yourself! You cant please everyone. They own their thoughts, reactions, and beliefs. So instead of feeling stressed and frustrated, just be yourself and welcome the peace and happiness that will come your way.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them; they can aim at them continual blows of contradiction and disproof without weakening them;