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

Waitley, Denis

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Valvano, Jim

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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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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

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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.

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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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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Bach, Richard

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Kafka, Franz

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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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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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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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