Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lilly, John C.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Epictetus

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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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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

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Foreman, George

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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ditka, Mike

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Valery, Paul

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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 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

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Gerry Spence

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine