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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Brown, Les

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Stein, Ben

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Borne, Ludwig

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Leo Rosten

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Gerry Spence

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

Bach, Richard

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Men freely believe that which they desire.