The American Dream is simple: it’s the unwavering belief that anybody – you, me, your friends, your neighbors, grandma Verna – can become exceedingly successful, and all it takes is the right amount of work, ingenuity, and determination.
I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
The only recipe is hard work, persistence, and belief.
What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
It doesn’t matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There’s something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.
My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.
I think it’s really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what’s going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that’s the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.
A belief may be larger than a fact.
If I had to say the secret recipe for acting melodrama, I think it comes from myself in real life. I have a belief that when I do melo scenes, I try to make them less cheesy.
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa.
Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.
I’m a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday, and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God cared one way or another about a borderline illegal fist-fight on Saturday night, I would be so greatly disappointed that it would make rethink my entire belief system.
At my aunt’s funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn’t be bound by the belief that I’m supposed to stay in anything – whether it’s a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance – if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.
I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn’t mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.
Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct – a gift of knowing without reasoning… Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence – it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives.
In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.
Contrary to popular belief, Americans don’t hate advertising.
Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends – they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.
The core of all religions is a belief in a supreme personal god.
I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows – it’s so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it’s so obviously a sham.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it’s very nice and I’m very honored. It’s nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That’s why we get into trouble all the time. We’re always viewed as naive.
I have such a strong belief in women’s ability to sustain each other.
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.
Atlanta is Exhibit A in my belief that the marriage between hip-hop and sports is a failure.
Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person’s belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
Christmas is a Christian holiday, and any self-respecting person of another religion should not celebrate a holiday that they don’t believe in. Clearly, Christ is in the name of the holiday, so there should be a belief in Him.
I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us.
I know there’s a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy.
What I’ve run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. ‘You are in this box. That’s all you are; that’s everything you are.’ It’s a very de-humanizing experience.
I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don’t lose hope.
Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being – it’s beyond belief.
It’s beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.
Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage – an Irish grandparent, say – but they recognise that many people believe in a form of racial purity. And it is from that belief that prejudice starts.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
It’s my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we’re talking about a great moral crusade, that Bush in fact planted the seeds of discontent in the country, because this was fundamentally a limited war with limited objectives and with limited gains.
I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it’s coolest when it doesn’t.
