Motivational Quotes

Belief

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Froude, James A.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bach, Richard

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Brown, Les

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Hare, David

32.

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Ditka, Mike

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Noah Porter

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor