Motivational Quotes

Belief

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

- Caesar, Julius

Best Quotes about Belief

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

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

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

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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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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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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

James, William

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

Epictetus

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

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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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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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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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

Foreman, George

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.