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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Stein, Ben

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Miller, Henry

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Mencken, H. L.

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

Valvano, Jim

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Brown, Les

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Foreman, George

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Bach, Richard

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.