104 Core Beliefs Quotes
Following is our list of core beliefs quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about beliefs and values.
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Famous Core Beliefs Quotes
Values underlie everything we are and do. — Mark Manson
Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth. — Rupert Spira
Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip. — Albert Mohler
Behind every system of actions are a system of belief. — James Clear
What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview. — Ken Ham
Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve. — Les Brown
The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works. — Thomas J. Sergiovanni
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively. — Kenneth I. Chenault
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live. — Howard Thurman
One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it. — Gustave Le Bon
Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation for everything great. — Jay-Z
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life. — Julia Alvarez
You are not born with your present beliefs. Every belief, including those about yourself, is learned and conditioned through experience. — James Clear
Short Core Beliefs Quotes
- One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. — Aldous Huxley
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Walter Bagehot
- We are what we believe we are. — C. S. Lewis
- The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image. — Brian Tracy
Core Values Quotes
Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family! — T. D. Jakes
Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. — James E. Faust
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism. — Robert Kiyosaki
The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing. — Michael Jordan
I don't think you can create culture and develop core values during great times. — Jensen Huang
There are three values: Feel good, be good and do good. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The secret to achieving inner peace lies in understanding our inner core values – those things in our lives that are most important to us – and then seeing that they are reflected in the daily events of our lives. — Hyrum W. Smith
I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference. — Widad Akrawi
Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values. — Kenneth E. Boulding
Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator. — Seth Klarman
Beliefs And Values Quotes
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them. — Peter Saville
We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy. — Pierre Trudeau
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions. — Nathaniel Branden
Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook. — Maajid Nawaz
How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community. — Barbara Jordan
A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors. — Dalai Lama
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people. — Howard Dean
There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. — David Myers
Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things. — Alfie Kohn
Personal Beliefs Quotes
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. — Septima Poinsette Clark
As a person thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body, and circumstances. — Joseph Murphy
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. — Maxwell Maltz
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. — John Stuart Mill
The single biggest obstacle to us getting what we really need and want in life is right here. It's ourselves. — William Ury
I believe that comics are entirely for entertainment. — Akira Toriyama
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. — David Brooks
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. — Sam Altman
The most important person to believe in is you. Everyone else who believes in you means nothing unless if you finally believe in yourself. — Patrick Bet-David
For me, God is cold. — Wim Hof
Firm Beliefs Quotes
What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue. — Prince
I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal. — Jesse Stuart
It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true. — Max Lucado
I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers. — Allan Rock
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. — Mahatma Gandhi
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. — David Hume
It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be. — Katherine Anne Porter
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God — Thomas Jefferson
Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence. — Bertrand Russell
People Writing About Core Beliefs
More Core Beliefs Quotes
You want a woman who shares your belief and your faith because that is usually your core. So, you want a woman whom you know can stand on that same foundation you both equally embrace and share. You also want a woman who is ambitious but also knows how to balance it with family. — Tony Gaskins
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity, and security are truly possible for all people who are blind. — Bob Ney
My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live. — Enya
Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion. — Meher Baba
The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious. — Randy Gage
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it. — Caitlin Moran
Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage. — Jack Welch
Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires that are in alignment with core beliefs generate powerful actions. Like a wave that draws from the depths of the ocean, actions connected to your authentic self are more likely to manifest your intentions. — David Simon
One of my core beliefs is that everything happens for a reason and some things just aren't to my taste. All the things that happen in my life are divinely inspired and they happen for a purpose. — John Assaraf
The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood. — Peter Garrett
Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it. — Lauren Mackler
The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning and transformation. — Geneen Roth
Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems. — Leroy Hood
I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century. — Andrew Greeley
Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are. — Adyashanti
Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul. — John C. Maxwell
Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being. — Mary Anne Radmacher
At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater. — Diane Paulus
It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often I find Christians - but not just Christians, (any) people who have a certain core belief of things - don't like to have fun made of them at all. — Corbin Bernsen
I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens. — John Linder
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs. — Sam Harris
The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done. — Dennis Prager
There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us. — Joel Osteen
We are a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That's what makes us Americans. When we sign onto that belief, we sign onto the core American identity, and that's very deep in us. — Daniel Fried
As you go forth and share our core beliefs and the fruits of our doctrines, misperceptions will dissolve, prejudices will diminish, and people will come to see Latter-day Saints as devout disciples of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. — Quentin L. Cook
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. — David Mitchell
It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations. — Mac Thornberry
Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime. — Robert Kennedy
It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us. — Yolanda Hadid
My principles and core beliefs haven't changed in many years. You know, I don't change what I think with the wind just in order to perhaps attract more people. I am what I am, believe what I believe, and I say so. — Rush Limbaugh
It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time. — Lauren Graham
At the core of every person or belief, there's a pain and a thorn. There's always something, whether it's a physical thing, a health thing, or an I wish I had someone or something in my life thing. We all know some level of pain, so I like to see the ugliness of characters. It's a side that we show, only when we strip down in the bathroom mirror. — Michael K. Williams
It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff. — Robert Greene
The left are not bipartisan. Somebody give me an example of left-wing bipartisanship. They don't even define it the way we do. Bipartisanship, as they define it, as in we cave on our core beliefs and agree with them. That is bipartisanship. There is no compromise. — Rush Limbaugh
The message "Your body isn't good enough" translates in a little girls mind to "YOU aren't good enough." This becomes a core belief that gets passed on to the next generation. — Christiane Northrup
The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles. — Barack Obama
The core of the American set of beliefs has remained pretty constant. — Samuel P. Huntington
When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is. — Samuel P. Huntington
All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at their core, the notion that equality is something the privileged group "gives" to those not so privileged - a reaching down, as it were. — George Saunders
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament. — Evelyn Waugh
At the core of One Spirit Medicine is the idea that how we perceive the world 'out there' is a projection of internal maps that shape our beliefs and guide how we think, feel and behave. These maps are the unconscious programs that drive our experience of life and the state of our health. The key to optimum health is to upgrade these unconscious maps and limiting beliefs that have been driving us to a toxic lifestyle and relationships. — Alberto Villoldo
sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others-- even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit — Darren Shan
Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have been led to believe that our genes determine the character of our lives, yet new research surprisingly reveals that it is the character of our lives that controls our genes. Rather than being victims of our heredity, we are actually masters of our genome. — Bruce H. Lipton
I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achieved, despite the presence of some enlightened whites, white society as a whole enjoyed being racists in the secret core of their being and would never, ever give that up. — Margo Jefferson
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