Creed Quotes
374 Creed quotes by 272 unique authors
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This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect…
— Howard Schultz
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My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people…
— Margaret Chase Smith
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and…
— Phillips Brooks
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The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of…
— John F. Kennedy
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute…
— Thomas Huxley
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To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and…
— Tom Lehrer
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My creed is love and you are its only tenet.
— John Keats
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My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the…
— Rajneesh
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The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It…
— Stephen Covey
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I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can…
— Mark Twain
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The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in…
— Murray Rothbard
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The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede…
— Barack Obama
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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.
— James Anthony Froude
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Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of…
— Laurence Sterne
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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes…
— Helen Keller
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot…
— William Howard Taft
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A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I…
— Ken Doherty
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While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural.…
— Davis McCaughey
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A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
— John Wayne
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