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

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Voltaire

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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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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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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