Beliefs Quotes

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy

Others, Rather, Tolerance

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony Robbins

Power, Experience, Human

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Work, Friendly, Hard

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Born, Believing, Tree

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

Die, Wrong, Might

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau

Live, Around, Turn

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Tony Robbins

True, Cannot, Impossible

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
Bradley Whitford

Life, Love, Hope

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Tony Robbins

Mean, Lives, Events

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret Thatcher

Values, Process, Seems

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell

Power, Mind, Two

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Feelings, Ideas

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein

Gossip, Room, Sit

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
Hans Eysenck

Truth, Bad, Deeply

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh

Thoughts, Cannot, Old

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
John Wooden

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.
Mitt Romney

Live, Said, Fact

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
William James

Truth, Long, Nothing

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene Dietrich

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Richard Dawkins

Religion, Thought, Might

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Richard Bach

Men, Strong, Win

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard Dawkins

Faith, Work, Children

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. Bush

Peace, Woman, America

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Knowledge, Difficult, Themselves

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Change, Good

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter

Dreams, Beautiful, Different

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber

Few, Heaven, Known

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
John Dewey

Work, Made, Path

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
John Stuart Mill

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
John Dewey

History, Old, Logical

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