Motivational Quotes

Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Belief

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly