Motivational Quotes

Belief

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

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

Leo Rosten

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Cousins, Norman

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Lippmann, Walter

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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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

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Wilde, Oscar

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