Belief Quotes

"Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful. The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition (1993)"

"Belief is what allows you to survive the mistakes you will inevitably make."

"It’s not just about building a company. It’s about building something that actually makes a big change in the world."

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard. As quoted in Self-Motivation Through Risk Taking! : Are You Leading Or Do You Wither with Problems? (2005) by M. Nadarajan Munisamy"

"To be effective you must not let your need to be right be more important than your need to find out what's true."

"All personal breakthroughs begin 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. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. p. 85"

"You must believe in the truth, even when the truth is painful to hear."

"Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do."

"Empires rise and fall in cycles."

"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. p. 75"

"We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes. April 9, 1841"

"If you don't believe in the mission, you'll quit when the math tells you to quit."

"We are a mission-driven company. We want to help people connect."

"Most people fight seeing what's true when it's not what they want it to be."

"There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes."

"You can't fake belief; employees can smell a lack of conviction from a mile away."

"People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie — or even what you say, right? They care about what you build."

"Radical transparency is the only way to ensure that people are seeing the same reality."

"Belief is the discipline of keeping your eyes on the prize when the world is on fire."

"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."

"If you don't look back at yourself and think, 'Wow, how stupid I was a year ago,' then you must not have learned much in the last year."

"Belief isn't just a feeling; it's a decision you make every single morning."

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

"Truth—or, more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality—is the essential foundation for any good outcome."

"Without belief, you are just managing a decline."

"In a lot of ways, Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company. We have this large community of people, and more than other technology companies, we're really setting policies."

"Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life."

"Belief is the engine that drives execution in the face of uncertainty."

"Find that thing you are super passionate about."

"The biggest mistake most people make is to believe that they or others have the answers."

"You must believe that you are the right person to lead this company at this specific time."

"If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out."

"I’ve found that the greatest challenge is to be able to see oneself objectively."