Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hare, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ford, Henry

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Lilly, John C.

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg 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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Foreman, George

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

Valvano, Jim

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