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

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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

John Lilly

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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.

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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 don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Stein, Ben

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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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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Brown, Les

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Ditka, Mike