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

Rostand, Jean

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Hare, David

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

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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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

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cousins, Norman

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Noah Porter

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

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

Foreman, George

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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.

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Proverb, French

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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

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine