Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man is what he believes.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Belief

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

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Stein, Ben

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

Lilly, John C.

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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Epictetus

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

John Lilly

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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.

Augustine, St.

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

Voltaire

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

Carlyle, 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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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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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.

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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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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