Belief

"The beauty of your passion is in the colours of your belief."

"Your beauty is yours, believe it. Do not rely on someone else to approve it."

"A woman is only as beautiful as she believes she is, if she can't convince herself, no one else can."

"The fall of the nation, there is no;Faithfulness, Kindness and Knowledge of God in your sacred land."

"The more belief and confidence we feel toward achieving our goal, the higher the probability of our making the changes required to hit our targets."

"The action generated the possibility of a future different from the past. Bitter division was healed by way of bold, confident leadership."

"Maybe all you needed in life was the belief you could change things. Somehow. Some way."

"... Weber insists that one should not give up or lose faith in the face of this struggle. Indeed, he calls for us to engage in, rather than withdraw from, the problems of this world. He reminds us, for example, that while 'successful political action is always the "art of the possible" ... the possible is often reached only by striving to attain the impossible that lies beyond it'."

"It’s never too late to drop your beliefs and let your wounds heal. Instead of wounding others as well."

"The only absolute truth is change, and death is the only way to stop change. Life is a series of judgments on changing situations, and no ideal, no belief fits every solution. Yet humans need to believe in something beyond themselves. Perhaps all intelligences do. If we do not act on higher motivations, then we can justify any action, no matter how horrible, as necessary for our survival. We are endlessly caught between the need for high moral absolutes—which will fail enough that any absolute can be demonstrated as false—and our tendency for individual judgments to degenerate into self-gratifying and unethical narcissism. Trying to force absolutes on others results in death and destruction, yet failing to act beyond one's self also leads to death and destruction, generally a lot sooner."

"Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do...implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it."

"The same process that makes AA so effective—the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe—happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community."

"That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.'It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing."

"Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exactly as they were taught. They are not exactly like their parents. They differ in temperament, in experience, in capacity, in surroundings. And so there is a continual, though almost imperceptible change. There is development, conscious and unconscious growth, and by comparing long periods of time we find that the old has been almost abandoned, almost lost in the new."

"Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed."

"Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself."

"Beliefs are our foundation and our guiding compass, navigating us through life."

"Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox."

"Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you. I hate reasoning, John,—especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves, when it comes to practice. I know you well enough, John. You don't believe it's right any more than I do; and you wouldn't do it any sooner than I."

"I was born a sheep & I cannot be a goat through pledge of hands."