Motivational Quotes

Belief

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Hare, David

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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.

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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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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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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.

Robbins, Anthony

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Rostand, Jean

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Epictetus

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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.