Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Stein, Ben

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lippmann, Walter

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Foreman, George

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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

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Epictetus

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

Barnum, P.T.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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 do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Bach, Richard

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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.

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Noah Porter

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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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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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