Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Noah Porter

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Hare, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ovid

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

Froude, James A.

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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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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Proverb, French

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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