Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Ovid

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, French

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Kafka, Franz

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Stein, Ben

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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.