beliefs quotes

• The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated. (Ronald Reagan) [willpower/beliefs]
• We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. (James Baldwin) [experience/beliefs]
• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. (Jimmy Carter) [people/beliefs]
• 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. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different. (John Dewey) [path/beliefs/weakness/defense]
• 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) [beliefs/basis]
• Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. (Marlene Dietrich) [beliefs]
• It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear. (Emile Durkheim) [more/sadness/beliefs]
• Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life. (George Eliot) [demand/child/beliefs/life]
• Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. (George Eliot) [human/beliefs]
• A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. (Havelock Ellis) [more/beliefs]
• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [beliefs]
• Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines --these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. (Henry Miller) [customs/beliefs/norm]
• What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. (Henry Miller) [men/beliefs]
• We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity. (Ronald Reagan) [share/beliefs/money/government]
• When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors; and when they separate, depend on it that it is for the sake of peace and quiet. (Laurence Sterne) [religion/beliefs/life/]
• 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) [process/beliefs]
• In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. (Simone Weil) [church/organism/beliefs]
• Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. (Thomas Wolfe) [culture/beliefs]
• One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre. (David Soul) [beliefs/spirit/church/team]
• I refused to do that because I always have certain beliefs and I will turn down certain projects if I don't believe in it. (Donnie Yen) [beliefs/willpower]
• There were certain beliefs, expectations, and a certain standard of quality that I wanted to have in my films. (Donnie Yen) [beliefs/quality]
• “Trust your doubt. Always fight for your beliefs. That is the path beyond thought.” (Steven Seagal) [fight/beliefs/path]
• I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be. (Isabella Rossellini) [more/beliefs]
• “. . . what I am is a humanist before anything -- before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race -- they don't exclude anyone.” (Whoopi Goldberg) [beliefs/human]
• I connect as a person who believes in God. I've been somewhat lazy in my pursuit of what my beliefs really are. (Ed Harris) [god/beliefs]
• I am learning that the beliefs I have about my self cause me to make the decisions I make. I act out of fear, out of anxiety and uncertainty. (Wynonna Judd) [beliefs/fear/anxiety]
• Mosques are being misused for propagating and inciting hatred against each other’s sect and beliefs and against the Government, too. (Pervez Musharraf) [being/hatred/beliefs/government]
• Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human. (Clancy Brown) [human/nature/beliefs/color]
• A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion. (Christy Turlington) [people/yoga/beliefs/yoga]
• Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs. (Christy Turlington) [yoga/beliefs]

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