Sheri L. Dew Quotes

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do is a reflection of our own personal value system. What do we mean by values? Our values are what we want out of life. No one is born with a set of values. Except for our basic physiological needs such as air, water, and food, most of our values are acquired after birth.

I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

I'm not starting my own religion, I'm not preaching, and I'm not starting a church of any kind, but I love being able to accumulate so many experiences over the years and use that as ammunition for what I truly believe in.

It would be easier for me to reject all established values, if I knew what they were.

There's no one who can teach you except yourself. Each of us needs to look at what our belief system really consists of. Look at the concepts that come across your mind and just notice what you believe.

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. And when you do - pass it on to the future.

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.

It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.

I know very much what I believe.

I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am

You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that's more terrible than dying - more terrible than dying young.

Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given; I have not embraced what I have learned; I lack my own conviction.

All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

I think we just have to remember who the heck we are and speak to who we are and what we believe.

I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

For he who loses all often easily loses himself.