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

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

13.

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

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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.

15.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

16.

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

Buffett, Warren

17.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

19.

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Lippmann, Walter

25.

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

John Lilly

26.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

27.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

28.

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

29.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

30.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

31.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

32.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ovid

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Noah Porter

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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

42.

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

Miller, Henry

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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 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

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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov