Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man is what he believes.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Belief

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Gomez, Foka

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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's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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 you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Brown, Les

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Froude, James A.

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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 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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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 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