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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ditka, Mike

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hare, David

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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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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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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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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

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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.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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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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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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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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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Ovid

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

Leo Rosten

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.