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I’ll always be here if you need me,” Mothwing told him. “I may not share your faith, but I will always help you fight for what you believe in.
— Erin Hunter, The Last Hope
A friendship has no guidelines.
— Unarine Ramaru
Yes, us. And the vow I just made. Hell, Rosa, it's about your home branded on my body.
— Ellen Connor, Midnight
Chris wracked his brain for the right solution.Leadership.Strength.Loyalty-A show of loyalty.
— Ellen Connor, Midnight
That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
She could tell he was exhausted, maybe half as much as she was, but he was still willing to do anything for her. It made her sad, someone being this loyal to her.
— Hugh Howey
Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.
— Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress
Patriotism without criticism has no head
—  criticism without patriotism has no heart.
I'm not loyal enough to the Republic to stamp that loyalty right on my face. Leave that to June.
— Marie Lu, Champion
Footage of love is loyalty.
— Kishore Bansal
To be straight means to be loyal to the truth.
— Auliq Ice
Loyalty and dedication can't be bought or paid to go away.
— Zelda la Grange
I understand the loss of a comrade is something to mourn, but our responsibilities do not end because one has lost the fight. We as defenders of this nation have an obligation to those who've sworn allegiance to us. And I intend to uphold my oath to the people of this land, no matter the cost.
— Charles   Lee, The Way To Dawn: End of Days
In life loyalty is something that you earn and Doreen had more than earned my loyalty over the years. But marriage is a rogue state with its own rules, and one of them is pledging your loyalty to somebody before you can be fully sure that they deserve it, so you stand their ground. You mess with him? You mess with me. That's the new rule. A husband is instant family. He gets the loyalty of a blood tie without doing any of the work.
— Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage
Some people treatloyalty as a lamp:they think, they canjust switch it on/offand believe,you won't noticethe difference...
— Veronika Jensen
You can buy a man's time, you can buy a man's physical presence at a certain place, you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day. But you cannot buy enthusiasm, you cannot buy initiative, you cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.
— Clarence Francis
I may not be the kind of person you want me to, but I will always be there for you.
— Alfusainey jallow
Love is not always fireworks and magic. Often we’ll experience it in the form of patience, acceptance, loyalty, and mutual respect.
— Charles F. Glassman
You can't train people loyalty. A person with loyalty is a great asset than a smart but disloyal one...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
You see that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to you. I have promised to remain forever with you, and now I could not break my promise if I would. The treasure will be no more mine than yours, and neither of us will quit this prison. But my real treasure is not that, my dear friend, which awaits me beneath the somber rocks of Monte Cristo, it is your presence, our living together five or six hours a day, in spite of our jailers; it is the rays of intelligence you have elicited from my brain, the languages you have implanted in my memory, and which have taken root there with all of their philological ramifications. These different sciences that you have made so easy to me by the depth of the knowledge you possess of them, and the clearness of the principles to which you have reduced them – this is my treasure, my beloved friend, and with this you have made me rich and happy. Believe me, and take comfort, this is better for me than tons of gold and cases of diamonds, even were they not as problematical as the clouds we see in the morning floating over the sea, which we take for terra firma, and which evaporate and vanish as we draw near to them. To have you as long as possible near me, to hear your eloquent speech, -- which embellishes my mind, strengthens my soul, and makes my whole frame capable of great and terrible things, if I should ever be free, -- so fills my whole existence, that the despair to which I was just on the point of yielding when I knew you, has no longer any hold over me; this – this is my fortune – not chimerical, but actual. I owe you my real good, my present happiness; and all the sovereigns of the earth, even Caesar Borgia himself, could not deprive me of this.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
We have forged the type of bonds that only battle brings.
— C.M. Subasic, The Forty Watt Flowers
But this is deception. It’s moving very fast, and just because you can’t see and feel it, doesn’t mean it’s not the truth.
— Roderick Vincent, The Cause
Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.
— Joe Abercrombie
She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.
— Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
He walked out into a different city, one that was perfumed by the last dahlias of June, and onto a street out of his youth, where the shadowy widowsfrom five o'clock Mass were filing by. But now it was he, not they, who crossed the street, so they would not see the tears he could no longer hold back, not his midnight tears, as he thought, but other tears: the ones he had been swallowing for fifty-one years, nine months and four days.
— Gabriel García Márquez
I'm in a squad where I'd rather shoot the C.O than the enemy.- Cooper HawkesKnock it off. -T,C. McQueenYou know what I'm saying, Sir. I mean I never felt like shooting you. -Cooper HawkesStop it, Hawkes. You're making me all misty.-- T.C. McQueen
— James Morrison
Wife number one always married with the naïve romantic dream that her husband would never need another wife, believing his earnest promises to her that she would be the only one, that their marriage was different… until he shattered her union with him and obliterated her dignity by bringing the next woman home. Her children would learn from her embittered and broken heart that their father had betrayed her and thus, by extension… them. They themselves would count the other wives and their half-siblings as interlopers, cutting into their rightful inheritance, long before they were old enough to be sent to learn anything from their sire.
— T.K. Naliaka, In Time of Peril
Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, had not stopped thinking ofher for a single moment since Fermina Daza had rejected him out ofhand after a long and troubled love affair fifty-one years, nine months,and four days ago.
— Gabriel García Márquez
Florentino Ariza never had anotheropportunity to see or talk to Fermina Daza alone in the many chanceencounters of their very long lives until fifty-one years and ninemonths and four days later, when he repeated his vow of eternalfidelity and everlasting love on her first night as a widow.
— Gabriel García Márquez
If I have to choose between a person who has everything but loyalty and another who has nothing but loyalty, I go for the latter. Go loyal!
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
I am only yours, my Luna. I was yours from my first breath and I will be yours until my last.
— Quinn Loftis, Prince of Wolves
Turning your back on nothing and walking away is not disloyal, it's self respect.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
When a person understands this setting into single- mindedness well, his affairs will pann out. Loyalty is also contained within this single- mindedness.
— Rati Tsiteladze
What good is treasure if I'm alone? After sharing so much of our dreams instead of sacrificing them and leaving with you. I would rather have nothing at all!
— Nami
Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew and buried him in the Land of Uprightness. It's very nice to have one friend like that, though too many wouldn't be good for you.
— L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Loyalty is everything, but everything isn't loyal.
— Terrance McAllister
Loyalty in a critic is corruption.
— George Bernard Shaw, Dramatic Opinions and Essays, volume 2
Indeed, four men like them, four men devoted to each other from their money to their lives, four men always supporting each other, never retreating, performing singly or together the resolutions they had made in common; four arms threatening the four points of the compass or all turning to a single point, must inevitably, be it surreptitiously, be it openly, be it by mines, by entrenchments, by guile, or by force, open a way to the end they wanted to reach, however well defended or far off it might be.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Men are only loyal to that which will benefit them.
— Brian Kochman
People will lie, steal, cheat and kill but you have to be the one who keeps it real.
— Alcurtis Turner
They shot one of ours.” The lines deepened around his grey eyes. “I’d waste the whole army for spilling a drop of my crew’s blood.
— Katherine McIntyre, An Airship Named Desire
Loyalty could come only of exchange and mutual regard.
— Ariana Franklin, The Serpent's Tale
The Prussian monarchy is not a country which has an army, but an army which has a country in which – as it were – it is just stationed.
— Georg Henrich Von Berenhorst
Idiot.People say that those who call others idiots are the real idiots. I don't care if I'm an idiot, so I'll call you one. Idiot! You should have told me this earlier! Okay, he's dead! I'm gonna kill him for sure. He's totally dead, guaranteed! -ShizuoWell, no. I'm the Headless Rider! I'm totally fine. -CeltyNo, no, no. That's not even the problem here! If he pulled a blade on you, that's instant death. Gonna kill him...-ShizuoWhat about your job? Aren't you on a break right now? -CeltyI don't give a shit. -ShizuoCome on. I'm not going to let you get fired because of me. Besides, I still need more information to track him down. I'll make the preparations, so just wait for now. -CeltyFine. But try to make it quick. Gonna kill him...
— Ryohgo Narita
Mamà believed in loyalty above all, even at the cost of self-denial. She also believed it was always best to tell the truth, to tell it plainly, without fanfare, and the more disagreeable the truth, the sooner you had to tell it.
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
But in my heart, when I said “my king,” I meant Verity.
— Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure -- that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.
— Herbert Hoover
I, who was empty… I made myself believe that I could only fill it.. by falling in love… at that time to me.. in this world around you, Nana... Everything was so shiny that I was blinded. That doesn’t mean that anyone would suit me… I just wanted to be in the same light as you.
— Ai Yazawa
And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
Just a few more years and then we'll join the circus.
— Ray S. Jones
Do something better and different that people know you by your work not by your name.
— Jarman Sandhu
To be an amazing person you need to be loyal to your religion,loyal to your people and loyal to yourself.....
— Zainab Asif
Loyalty is what matters, and that exists now, not in the past. Loyalty has to be proved every day, in every piece of fresh-kill brought back for the Clan, every claw mark on our enemies, every patrol, every training session.
— Erin Hunter
The Crown Prince of Adarlan stared him down. "And consider where your true loyalties lie."Once, Chaol might have argued. Once, he might have protested that his loyalty to the crown was his greatest asset. But that blind loyalty and obedience had started this descent.And it had destroyed everything.
— Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.
— Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
A wife! No one else could love a man who had been trampled on by iron feet. She would wash his feet after he had been spat on; she would comb his tangled hair; she would look into his embittered eyes. The more lacerated his soul, the more revolting and contemptible he became to the world, the more she would love him. She would run after a truck; she would wait in queues on Kuznetsky Most, or even by the camp boundary fence, desperate to hand over a few sweets or an onion; she would bake shortbread for him on an oil stove; she would give years of her life just to be able to see him for half an hour... Not every woman you sleep with can be called a wife.
— Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
The subject of kissing seemed to be an awkward one. Better keep quiet about it in future. What was obviously important, was to kiss; not talk about it.
— Peter St. John, Gang Loyalty
Loyalty to a wrong person always paid darkness, Nothing else!
— Umakant
Elias revved the engine menacingly. I put my hand on the steering wheel. "That's my mom! Don't even think about it." "How about I just back over the ones behind us?" " Or the ones on the sidewalk," one of the guys in the backseat suggested. "Be serious," I said, though they might have been.
— Tate Hallaway, Almost to Die For
I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.
— Ron Suskind, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
Yes, it would really mean something to be kissed by Jenno.
— Peter St. John, Gang Loyalty
If I were you, Mr Lascelles," said Childermass, softly, "I would speak more guardedly. You are in the north now. In John Uskglass's own country. Our towns and cities and abbeys were built by him. Our laws were made by him. He is in our minds and hearts andspeech. Were it summer you would see a carpet of tiny flowers beneath every hedgerow, of a bluish-white colour. We call them John's Farthings. When the weather is contrary and we have warm weather in winter or it rains in summer the country people say that JohnUskglass is in love again and neglects his business. And when we are sure of something we say it is as safe as a pebble in John Uskglass's pocket.
— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
I'll be here when you get back.
— Ally Carter, Perfect Scoundrels
You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. (As Silent Bob)
— Kevin Smith
Like the chosen Shulamite, there will be times when you too will be faced with crude assaults on your virtue, or with solicitations that will be naked attempts to cheapen your marriage. Being polite is one thing, but there comes a time. Even the peace-loving Jesus took a rope to those who disregarded the boundaries of his Father's house. Your house has boundaries too. Do what you must.pg 67
— Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs The Book for Daughters
The totality of love is just three simple acts; devotion, loyalty and sacrifice.
— M.F. Moonzajer
...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.
— Genevieve Dewey, Third Time's The Charm
It’s you and me that matters to me and you.
— George R.R. Martin
Never has God given waivers to family members, just because they had bad leaders. In Jonah's time, the entire family of Israel had become unacceptable, but never has any Israelite administration been without some injustice, intolerance and alienation from God--much less today's earthly family. Even during the celebrated reign of Solomon, Solomon was multiplying wives and horses--against God's written counsel. It has always been so.Regardless, Israel was one family. They were expected to stick together whether they were in exile, or at home living in abundance. No deserters, or pious arm-folders were allowed. As Jonah discovered, no quitters were allowed. (page vi)
— Michael Ben Zehabe, A Commentary on Jonah
A man should never measure his wealth in achievements or personal riches, but rather by his love for her. She is more than a woman; she is a queen. She is more than the world; she is your universe.
— Chris Flores, Water
Loyalty looks simple... but it ain't.
— David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.
— Rami Ollaik, The Bees Road
You can still go home a loyal wife.” - Warren Brown
— T.M.  Williams, Moonlight
Loyalty never put blood back in a man's veins.
— Carol Berg, Flesh and Spirit
In (hyper-loyal) cultures, loyalty is so highly prized that it covers a multitude of leadership sins. I’ve seen numerous bad leaders cover their ineptitude by stressing the importance of loyalty over competence. They teach that loyalty is more important than excellence and they use that idea to distract the team from their own inability to perform.
— Phil Cooke
The whole crowd interrupted and told him, 'No, we won't let you go. You have worked hard for our rights and you can't quit now.''Then,' said Riel, 'if I must, I will desert.''If you desert, we will desert with you.
— Gabriel Dumont, Gabriel Dumont Speaks
My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
— Edward Abbey, Confessions of a Barbarian
Rudy handed it back. "Speaking of which, I think we're both slightly in for it when we get home. You especially.""Why me?""You know- your mama.""What about her?" Liesel was exercising the blatant right of every person who's ever belonged to a family. It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. That's when you get your back up and show loyalty.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My on going struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
A wife's loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband's loyalty is tested when he has everything.
— Habeeb Akande
Her hands flew to her mouth. 'Are we even twins?'Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. 'I will always be your brother, Sophie. I will always look after you.
— Michael Scott, The Enchantress
There's always two ways of looking at things... that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.
— D.J. MacHale, The Lost City of Faar
It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.
— Glenn Greenwald
Loyalty. We're still loyal to the United States of America. Why? Because we too are Americans. We don't agree, but we will show our loyalty by our obedience.
— Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.
— Orrin Woodward, LIFE
Solidarity was admirable
—  loyalty was the person standing next to you when the devil came to call.
Love's the sonstood stammering elocutionwhile the poor ship in flames went down
— Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979
There are two things which are mine in this world, You and my Dreams and I love them both by heart and soul....!
— M.H. Rakib
Peter was now standing very close - as if he wanted to comfort me - as if he knew how hurt I felt that Mrs Knowles had not asked me to play or to sing. And I did feel comforted. It was as if a tide of warmth was carrying me out of myself, inclining me to trust him and to conduct myself well.
— Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet
The death of this honorable man upon this battlefield leaves all of us the poorer for his loss, yet so much the richer for the friendship and love and loyalty with which he gifted us in life. May his spirit speed unhindered to the other side to join those already there and to await us until we join him in our own times.
— Walter C. Conner, Wizard Of Wisdom
No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
This made my father laugh. 'Mary made a cake, did she? Well, well. Better that than she should make a cake for herself, I suppose.'Peter then burst out: 'Why must you always be making a game of Mary? 'Tis not fair; 'tis not sporting.
— Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet
You are my king. You could command me to stop seeing her."Niall turned his gaze to Irial. "What would yo
— Melissa Marr, Stopping Time
I actually do have a motto,” said Heat. “It’s ‘Never forget who you work for.'" And as she voiced the words, Nikki felt a creeping unease. It wasn’t exactly shame, but it was close. For the first time it sounded hollow. Fake. Why? She examined herself, trying to see what was different. The stress, that was new. And when she looked at that, she recognized that the hardest part of her day lately was working to avoid confrontation with Captain Montrose. That’s when it came to her. In that moment, sitting nearly naked in Rook’s living room, playing some silly nineteenth-century parlor game, she came to an unexpected insight. In that moment Nikki woke up and saw with great clarity who she had become - and who she had stopped being. Without noticing it, Heat had begun seeing herself as working for her captain and had lost sight of her guiding principle, that she worked for the victim.
— Richard Castle
Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you’ve ever held dear with the greatest of ease.
— Nicole McKay, A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
— Blaise Pascal, De l'art de persuader
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
— Carl Sagan
Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
If you don't believe in the things you're doing, the answer isn't fooling yourself into thinking you believe it. If you don't believe in what you're doing, then you just shouldn't be doing it.
— Jason Myers, The Mission
I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
— Margaret Mead
Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
— G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck... I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
— Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
In part. She sat down and pulled her necklace out of her shirt. "I read about it in my mother's journal. The Witches believe we are all parts of a whole. Like the phases of the moon. Together, we complete the circle and bring balance.
— Amber Argyle, Witch Song
What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.
— Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin
It's one of the great temptations, you see--wanting to prove the strength of your own faith by making others believe what you believe. It shows you're right.  But it doesn't prove anything of the sort. All it proves is that you're condescending and arrogant and good at doing what half-decent actors can do, or advertising agents, or pop stars, or politicians, or con men, or any of the professional persuaders. They sell illusions. And that's all they do. And they feel good when they succeed. That's what their lives depend on. Which isn't true about religion. Or shouldn't be. Your belief shouldn't depend on what other people think about it. And it certainly should not depend on whether other people believe the same as you.
— Aidan Chambers, Nik: Now I Know
It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.
— Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
— Thomas Paine
Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn't matter whether we are looking at God, race, or national pride.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.
— Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
The beauty in our beliefs causes us to let our grassy goals and dreams take root, for sorrow gives seed to success, success blossoms into significance, and significance transcends the seasons that come and go with the whims of the world.
— Kayla Severson, Nature's 1st Gem Is Green
The more we realize that we are only separated by the membrane of our own limiting and dividing beliefs, the more sand we remove, ultimately uncovering the deep and direct roots between us. Only then is society truly united, when we realize we are a whole, composed of cohesive parts.
— Kayla Severson, Nature's 1st Gem Is Green
Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Beliefs are the masters of the world, and all masters are tyranical
— Ki Longfellow, The Secret Magdalene
I wish there wasn't such a division between people who believe certain things and people who don't. It seems vastly hypocritical on both ends, these two groups of people both claiming to believe in good things and yet willing to do bad things to each other for disagreeing.
— Kevin Breel, Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live
Shared beliefs and values form the heart of every successful relationship and ultimately determine its success.
— Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
...the world would be a better place if we all believed whatever we wished but behaved towards each other as if there was no external deity to sort out our own problems...If you happened to hold the finest theological beliefs there are and if you understand all the best and most detailed divine precepts and commandments but in your daily life you are actually an angry, shouting inhumane swine,then that's the way you will be remembered. Believing is all very well, but behaving is what you are judged by and remembered for.
— Buckman, Robert
When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements they are. But after being in the wilderness for a while, you may come around to feeling sociable. Maybe you could try living in a community of “like-minded” social deviants. However, they had better be so alike that they are clones of one another or the day will come when someone steps over the line and factions begin to teem. Our brains will always discriminate—that is their nature. They fix on superficial differences we spy in one another, redundantly speaking, since all differences among us are superficial.
— Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
The amount of evidence and its quality do not count for much, because poor evidence can make a very good story. For some of our most important beliefs we have no evidence at all, except that people we love and trust hold these beliefs. Considering how little we know, the confidence we have in our beliefs is preposterous - and it is also essential.
— Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
You studied and did your duty, believed and did what you were told with a promise of a life that is already here. Life is just over those hills. You were told you were on a journey; when all along your sorry ass was sitting inside that car analyzing every belief known to man. Your path will reveal the truth about you. Nobody cares what you believe; they care about who you are.
— RJ Blizzard
Edward, maybe you're seeking the wrong answer? You are asking the wrong question. It's not what you believe, but how you choose to believe. Everyone believes something. Even nothing is something.
— RJ Blizzard
If someone chooses to live a certain way, and it doesn’t infringe on anyone’s freedom, it’s their choice to make.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
We asked volunteers to report their own beliefs, God's beliefs, and the average American's beliefs on a wide variety of social issues while they were lying on their backs in an fMRI scanner. We found some clear distinctions. Major differences in neural activity emerged when people reasoned about their own beliefs and the average American's beliefs. We found the very same pattern of differences when people reasoned about God's beliefs versus the average American's beliefs. But the most amazing result of all was that we could not tell the difference in overall neural activity between people reasoning about their own beliefs versus God's beliefs. In the scanner, reasoning about God's beliefs looked the same as reasoning about one's own beliefs.
— Nicolas Epley
...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!
— Terry Pratchett, Nation
It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.
— George Orwell, 1984
Making and Working on my Beliefs.
— amableati
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Says you and your family. Sooner or later you’re gonna realize that just cause a Turner thinks a thing is normal doesn’t mean it is. Not at all.
— Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
Believe in what you want to believe in and don't let other people change that.
— Austyn Irvin
All your stress, pain, suffering, misery is due to your attachment with it. If you don’t attach with the things, that doesn’t serve you, either in your internal or external life, slowly those things lose grip on you, and you release yourself from it forever.
— Roshan Sharma
Whatever you believe is true, is.
— Stan Beecham
we're only ever limited to our own beliefs
— Jennifer Pierre
When you get down to it, though, explaining what you believe isn't all that easy. If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things—that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact. I don't logically see how one single word can have contradictory definitions, but emotionally, I completely understand. Because there are times I think what I am doing is right, and there are other times I second-guess myself every step of the way.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
A true religious person should not think that “my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.” Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss.
— Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality
At that instant I became a blooming lotus flower. The water in which I flourished was a single teardrop from Nyx.
— P.C. Cast, The Fledgling Handbook 101
Life has no meaning. You give meaning to everything. Your beliefs influence the meanings you give. Your judgment about situations is based on the beliefs you hold.
— Hina Hashmi
That which can happen in your future is far better than whatever happened in your past.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Secrets are gold and we are the miners.
— Nelo Igboejesi
I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.
— Marjane Satrapi
I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them.
— Louis C.K.
When two people who love each other cannot come into agreement after substantial discussion, it is perfectly appropriate to agree to disagree without raining judgment down on each others’ heads. For most people, there are some entrenched beliefs and opinions which will not change, regardless of persuasion or coercion.
— Carla L. Rueckert, Living the Law of One 101: The Choice
Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.
— Libba Bray, The Diviners
Consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and involuntarily, willfully and unsuspectingly, our beliefs are the sum total of our lives. It's that simple.
— Patty Houser, A Woman's Guide to Knowing What You Believe: How to Love God With Your Heart and Your Mind
I'll always be here if you need me. I may not share your faith, but I will always help you fight for what you believe in.
— Erin Hunter, The Last Hope
On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who we are or what we believe and neither does anyone else.
— Patty Houser, A Woman's Guide to Knowing What You Believe: How to Love God With Your Heart and Your Mind
The kind of people I absolutely cannot tolerate are those who never let you forget they are religious. It seems to me that a truly religious person would let his life be example enough, would not let his religion interfere with being a human being, and would not be so insecure as to have to fawn publicly before his gods.
— W.P. Kinsella
When someone is delusional, he or she can do anything to justify his or her beliefs.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Our behaviors reflect what we believe. If we want to change our behavior, we have to change our beliefs.
— Patty Houser, A Woman's Guide to Knowing What You Believe: How to Love God With Your Heart and Your Mind
People who use their religion as a framework to kill people, simply , are not nice people. Yes, that's quite a stand I'm making, but the idea that people are systematically executed because they don't share your God is beyond barbaric. The fact that there are people in our own country who seem to tolerate that, while being intolerant of a Christian's biblical stance regarding gay marriage, makes me want to go to leave the United States and go to a more sensible place, like Texas.
— Greg Gutfeld, The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
You can choose to believe whatever you wish
—  just remember that your beliefs drive your behavior.
Many Christians never let the Bible get in the way of their believing, but depend on their logic, tradition, or experience to formulate beliefs.
— Paul Silway, Heaven I - Paradise: The City and Throne
One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.
— Joe Hill
Nothing is as powerful as one's beliefs.
— Patty Houser, A Woman's Guide to Knowing What You Believe: How to Love God With Your Heart and Your Mind
Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached
— Mike Carey, The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Inside Man
Perhaps the most general and most important mental habit to instill is an appreciation of the folly of trying to draw conclusions from incomplete and unrepresentative evidence. An essential corollary of this appreciation should be an awareness of how often our everyday experience presents us with biased samples of information.
— Thomas Gilovich
It is my firm belief that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs
— Malaclypse the Younger
When we prefer to believe something, we may approach the relevant evidence by asking ourselves,"what evidence is there to support this belief?"...Note that this question is not unbiased: It directs our attention to supportive evidence and away from information that might contradict the desired conclusion. Because it is almost always possible to uncover some supportive evidence, the asymmetrical way we frame the question makes us overly likely to become convinced of what we hope to be true.
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy scrutiny and debate. The absence of such argument also leads us to exaggerate the extent to which other people believe the way we do.
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good.
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
A person's conclusions can only be as solid as the information on which they are based. Thus, a person who is exposed to almost nothing but inaccurate information on a given subject almost inevitably develops an erroneous belief, a belief that can seem to be "an irresistible product" of the individual's (secondhand) experience.
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
we believe certain things because they ought to be true.
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Inside accounts of Presidential advisory groups make it clear that the failure to express dissent can have direct, immediate, and severe consequences...Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy scrutiny and debate. The absence of such argument also leads us to exaggerate the extent to which other people believe the way we do. Bolstered by such a false sense of social support, our beliefs strike us as more resistant to subsequent logical and empirical challenge.
— Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death brings forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete.When they hunt for food, the Desana know the animals they kill will leave a hole in the spiritual well. But that hole will be filled, they believe, by the Desana hunters when they die. Were there no men dying, there would be no birds or fish being born. I like this idea. Morrie likes it, too. The closer he gets to goodbye, the more he seems to feel we are all creatures in the same forest. What we take, we must replenish."It's only fair," he says.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.
— E.M. Forster, What I Believe and Other Essays
Have a humble heart & an open-mind and you'll soon be given glimpses beyond the veil of your beliefs and understandings... growing wiser, and believing deeper.
— Russell Kyle, Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life
Our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives...
— Bruce H. Lipton, The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles
We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.
— Bruce H. Lipton, The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles
People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
As More says, it hardly makes a man a hero, to agree to stand and burn once he is chained to a stake. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life. pg.404
— Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Don’t believe everything you repeat in your mind!
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
My gods dwell in temples made with hands.
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Moment by moment the Holy Spirit will work with your beliefs, taking you step by step as you unwind your mind from the many false concepts that you believe keep you safe and make you happy. Only the release from these false beliefs can bring you true happiness and lasting peace.
— David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God:  Experiencing A Course in Miracles
All belief is the least reliable form of knowing...Where there is a natural knowing of God, there is not need for belief. The highest form of certainty is something you know so thoroughly and so naturally that it's impossible to put into words.
— Luke Rhinehart, The Book of Est
For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons.
— M. Scott Peck
Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
... anyone who really believed what they were saying could get it said in a lot fewer words.
— Jack Campbell, Relentless
People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
If you are noticing your desires are not coming to fruition, it is time to dive into the unconscious world to discover what other belief may be stronger.
— Miranda J. Barrett, A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
You don’t always have to follow the rules. You have to stand for what you believe.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
Do not believe the road signs. There is no "one way." If it's your truth then it's the right way.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.
— Jay Lake, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.
— Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Accept what makes you happy and pay no attention to fearful beliefs no matter who they come from.
— Raphael Zernoff
In my world, I believe in the great beauties, the highest of which, is love.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Are your consistent beliefs serving you or are they holding you back?
— Mike Basevic, No Limits, Mastering the Mental Edge
Most of beliefs that are commonly known as scientific facts are based on various theories, which have never been validated. Many of them will never be. Question your beliefs. Choose what promotes love and unity.
— Raphael Zernoff
If you can begin to believe in your own beauty, you can then begin to believe in the beauty of others.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.
— Jim Al-Khalili
People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.
— Julian Houston, New Boy
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, Skye
We cannot help where we are born or how we are raised," Tel Hesani said. "But we can reject the twisted beliefs of those around us if we need to. Our loved ones and elders don't always know what is best. A man should listen to his heart and make his own decisions about what is wrong and what is right.
— Darren Shan, The Thin Executioner
Nobody has ever been and most certainly, never would be able to cut the wings of beliefs! Instead, they are nurtured for the needed flight that they give to our otherwise inert lives…
— Trishala D. Shah
The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
All things are within the Circle. That is the very Center of what we believe. If all things are not enclosed, then there is no Circle.
— Tanya Huff, Sing the Four Quarters
Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?
— Dee Hock