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

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Leo Rosten

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Gomez, Foka

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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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Kafka, Franz

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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.

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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.

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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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 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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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 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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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