Belief Quotes

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

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.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

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 have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.