Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Laurence J. Peter

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Saying, Traditional

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Froude, James A.

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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

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

Lilly, John C.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bach, Richard

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

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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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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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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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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis