Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Barker, Joel A.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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.

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

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Gerry Spence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Proverb, French

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Brown, Les

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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

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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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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Ditka, Mike

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman