Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man makes holy what he believes.

- Renan, Ernest

Best Quotes about Belief

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Borne, Ludwig

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Rostand, Jean

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Miller, Henry

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

John Lilly

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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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

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fuller, Thomas

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

31.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Valvano, Jim

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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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

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

41.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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