Motivational Quotes

Belief

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Cousins, Norman

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Caesar, Julius

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

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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Gerry Spence

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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

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

Epictetus

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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Leo Rosten

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

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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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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Proverb, French

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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.