Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barnum, P.T.

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.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Noah Porter

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Cousins, Norman

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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