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

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

John Lilly

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Froude, James A.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ovid

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

Epictetus

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Saying, Traditional