Motivational Quotes

Belief

Men willingly believe what they wish.

- Julius Caesar

Best Quotes about Belief

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

John Lilly

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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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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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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