Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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

Valvano, Jim

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

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

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

James, William

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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.

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Brown, Les

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

Wilde, Oscar

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Lewis Carroll

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.