Motivational Quotes

Belief

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

- Bartholomew, Saint

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Brown, Les

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Caesar, Julius

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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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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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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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.

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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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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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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ovid

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.