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

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

Epictetus

2.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

4.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

5.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

12.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Rostand, Jean

14.

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

Proverb, French

15.

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

Hellman, Lillian

16.

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

Barnum, P.T.

18.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

19.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Brown, Les

25.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

26.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

27.

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

Laurence J. Peter

28.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

30.

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

31.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

32.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

33.

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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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Noah Porter

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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