"He who has a why can deal with any what or how."
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"The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs."
"Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem."
"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."
"All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts."
"There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling."
"We see only what we know."
"We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief."
"I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance."
"When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant."
"Belief in the causal nexus is superstition."
"People do things for love and belief and passion, not just because they're paid to do it."
"Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness."
"The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start."
"A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery."
"Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief."
"Any one can heal who believes that he can, and who will take the time to put that belief in motion through the Law."
"It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief."
"My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself."
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."