Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Belief

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Foreman, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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

Leo Rosten

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Kafka, Franz

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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