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

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

Gerry Spence

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Froude, James A.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Leo Rosten

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Voltaire

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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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 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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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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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Mill, John Stuart

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Proverb, French

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Valery, Paul

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

Gomez, Foka

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

John Lilly

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis