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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Valvano, Jim

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Bach, Richard

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Froude, James A.

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

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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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Miller, Henry

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Proverb, French

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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.