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

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

Noah Porter

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

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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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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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

31.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stein, Ben

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

Brown, Les

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

Kafka, Franz

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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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

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hare, David

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

Foreman, George

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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.