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

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lilly, John C.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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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.