Top 74 Quotes About Personal Beliefs
#1. I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.
Garry Shandling
#2. I never said I wasn't Black ... I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected my personal beliefs and comments to spark such emotion in people. I think it is only positive when we can openly discuss race and being labeled in America.
Raven-Symone
#3. We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.
James Altucher
#4. I've come to believe that we, as people, only tend to remember only certain of what we hear or read just for that reason. Most of what we retain coincide with our personal beliefs and feelings and the rest, we throw away into the back of our minds where we keep it or forget it entirely.
Celia Mcmahon
#5. The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.
James Arthur Ray
#6. Do you believe in an afterlife? Do your personal beliefs include a life after death? - no matter how they phrase their snotty test, do the following. Simply look them in the eye, snort derisively, and retort, Frankly, only a provincial ignoramus would even believe in death.
Chuck Palahniuk
#7. It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those political persuasions who have such different ideologies but confess the same things I confess spiritually.
Sufjan Stevens
#8. You have been immortal since before you were born and will be long after the body dissolves. The body is Consciousness; never born; never dies; only changes. The mind - your ego, personal beliefs, history, and identity - is all that ends at death.
Dan Millman
#9. Beliefs are choices. No one has authority over your personal beliefs. Your beliefs are in jeopardy only when you don't know what they are.
Jay Allison
#10. What do you mean, Araluen? Death?"
Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.
John Flanagan
#11. We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.
George W. Bush
#12. Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.
Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
#13. I hope that nothing ever wussifies me to deny my own personal beliefs. Brainwashed wussies have been taught that standing up for yourself and defending your personal point of view makes you a close-minded hate monger. One must also be respectful of dissenting belief while supporting their own.
Brad Stine
#14. I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.
Tim Robbins
#15. Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.
Rodney Stark
#16. What are the obvious temptations and inclinations that consistently call me or entice me to go against my personal beliefs, values and standards? You don't need a prophet for this!
Archibald Marwizi
#17. This show is our own personal beliefs.
Jon Stewart
#18. Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin
Hope Bradford
#19. I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.
Cindy Gallop
#20. I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.
Justin Baldoni
#21. As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)
Robin R. Meyers
#22. We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.
Robert L. Payton
#23. A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.
Jean M. Auel
#24. No woman should have her personal health care decisions dictated by the religious beliefs of her boss.
Eric Schneiderman
#25. All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief.
Tony Robbins
#26. I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one who has seen many challenges over a long lifetime, I can assure you that personal faith and conviction are strengthened, not weakened, in adversity.
Ronald Reagan
#28. Your life is not a result of your potential, skills or desires,
but of your consistent expectations and actions, which largely flow from your values and beliefs.
Christopher Babson
#29. All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.
Isaiah Berlin
#30. My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.
Tony Robbins
#31. All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!
Michel Ocelot
#32. I believe the Universe desires for us to choose to love as much as possible while we are here.
Renae A. Sauter
#33. Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe.
Abhijit Naskar
#34. Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes our
beliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.
Greta Christina
#35. Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
Katharine Hepburn
#36. My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.
Robert Vaughn
#37. Your governing values should be important enough to you that you will invest your time, resources, and energy in making them a fundamental part of your life.
Hyrum W. Smith
#38. It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy
Albert Bandura
#39. I like all kinds of comedy. I like comedy that doesn't talk about real beliefs or serious thoughts, but then I also like the stuff that does. I think it just depends. It's a completely personal choice.
Maria Bamford
#40. Recognize, manage and master your beliefs. They aren't genetic. They are choices. Choose ones that serve you.
Christopher Babson
#41. If we don't currently have what we so desire, then we must become a different person. Beliefs and thought patterns is the road to victory.
Matthew Donnelly
#42. Champions learn how to develop empowering beliefs and invest a substantial amount of time solidifying those beliefs, mostly through their own self-talk.
Steve Siebold
#43. The problem is not religion or God. The actual problem is authoritarianism, mixed with the desire to angrily impose one's personal apparently idealistic beliefs on others.
Abhijit Naskar
#44. Actions are merely an indicator of a problem contained deeper in the heart and in the beliefs of a person. Individual racism cannot be changed through legislation but through personal transformation.
David Anderson
#45. you create your own personal experience of reality through your beliefs, expectations, attitudes, desires, fears, judgements, feelings, and consistent or persistent thoughts and actions.
Serge Kahili King
#46. A lie believed acts as truth until it is neutralized. The false beliefs you hold about your life become the personal laws of your life, holding you prisoner until you break your agreement with them.
Derek Rydall
#47. If you want to know the one thing that will allow you to grow faster than anything else, it is the belief that you may be wrong about absolutely everything you believe. When you can question your beliefs at every possible turn, your opportunities for growth expand exponentially.
Kelle Sparta
#48. Your thoughts become your BELIEFS. Your beliefs become your TRUTH. Your truth becomes your STORY. Your story IS your REALITY.
Sarah Centrella
#49. We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#51. I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.
Winthrop Rockefeller
#52. Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.
Keith O'Brien
#53. While some people are apprehensive that meditation may conflict with their beliefs, the usual experience is that it leads to a heightened appreciation of their particular religious leanings and a greater level of personal joy
Ian Gawler
#54. Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.
Benjamin Hoff
#55. Conflict never lies between two people. It always lies between rigid beliefs about the other person and the contradictions they show you. Conflict is always an inside job, but until you recognise this, it is easier to blame the other person.
Esther Veltheim
#56. The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.
Marianne Williamson
#57. The most important attitude, when we propose ourselves to learn something, is to be prepared to leave our present identity behind, in our beliefs and way we handle personal experiences.
Daniel Marques
#58. when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comes
the necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older.
Derric Yuh Ndim
#59. A belief is nothing more than a repeated thought which you have chosen to embrace and implement in your life.
Stephen Lovegrove
#60. Forget your religious superstitions built by cults and learn to love for the sake of humanity."-Stated after hearing a man use religion to justify and warrant hatred of people based on differences put forth by his spiritual beliefs. Oddly enough I happen to be very superstitious myself!
Rickey Russell
#61. Most religious individuals do not conceive God in an anthropomorphic or angry way. Rather, in their personal psychological domain of religious or spiritual beliefs, they conceive God in more abstract, spiritual and merciful way.
Abhijit Naskar
#62. My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
Ed Case
#63. I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.
Alan Alda
#64. I have noted two particularly powerful and common methods of allaying fears about death, two beliefs, or delusions, that afford a sense of safety. One is the belief in personal specialness; the other, the belief in an ultimate rescuer.
Irvin D. Yalom
#65. To think because you have been "saved" that you are now sane is insanity. God doesn't fix the mind. He only gives you opportunities to have moments of clarity. It is your job to climb the mountain and see above the clouds for yourself, not to believe the congregation's interpretation of the view.
Shannon L. Alder
#66. When someone doesn't want to change then there is nothing you can do to change them. And, when someone wants to change there is nothing you can do to stop them.
Marnie Kay
#67. Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#68. Make sure your reading, studying or research are always adding value to the defined vision, mission, beliefs and values that form your unique personal brand.
Archibald Marwizi
#69. I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist.
Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar
#70. There is no excuse for being derogatory or dismissive about other's beliefs, paths, choices. Everyone is where they need to be at the right time to learn the right things for them and their personal journey through life.
Jay Woodman
#71. Don't take it personal. Whether people like or dislike you, it most probably is because of your beliefs, principles, and values...
Assegid Habtewold
#72. People's faith, people's beliefs are such a personal thing, and it defies definition. I'm so rarely interested in discussing what I believe or what you believe. I think it's liquid, anyway.
Lorraine Toussaint
#73. You can choose to believe whatever you wish; just remember that your beliefs drive your behavior.
Hyrum W. Smith
#74. Being an effective person-centred counsellor is not so much a matter of possessing skills and knowledge, but of having a particular set of deeply-held values and beliefs and then being able to express these qualities in interactions with other people.
John McLeod
