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 have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Carlyle, Thomas

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

Ovid

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epictetus

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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 Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.