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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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

Brown, Les

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

28.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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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

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, French