Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Leo Rosten

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Froude, James A.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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.

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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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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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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.