Top 1200 Moral Beliefs Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.

When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

I'm never concerned about my beliefs hurting me in any way. I'd rather lose a job than have to lie.

In the real world, people go against my beliefs all the time, and I don't make it my place to - like, I'm not super confrontational.

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs.

Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom, Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison That keeps you from achieving what you want.

I love this country and I am very vocal about my thoughts and beliefs. America is the greatest nation on the planet!

Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!

And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

The Constitution is man-made, so it is not perfect. It's not the basis of my beliefs. My belief system is based on the Scriptures which come from God.

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.

I hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it.

The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that it is not interesting and so on.

One's political views and/or religious beliefs should not exist in an impenetrable and inviolable bubble wherein they are protected from criticism or scrutiny.

I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.

THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all

When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken.

As one of the most conservative members of Congress and a staunch supporter of the 2nd Amendment, I am constantly under attack for my values and beliefs.

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.

I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.

And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing.

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them.

There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Today we are mentally preparing for tomorrow. The thoughts we think, the words we speak, the beliefs we accept, shape our tomorrows.

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

I don't speak for all of us, but I'm pretty sure that my thoughts and opinions and beliefs identify with most people who are black because that's my soul.

Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.

Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.

Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

The mainline media attacks all conservatives, especially Christians, and distorts their policies and beliefs so that the local population is afraid to vote for them.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

Generally, people don't change their minds about fundamentally deeply held beliefs; it doesn't happen in an instant - it's a process.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.