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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Leo Rosten

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

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

Voltaire

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

James, William

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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 lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Hare, David

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

Brown, Les

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Noah Porter

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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Man is what he believes.