Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Chesterfield, Lord

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Proverb, French

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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 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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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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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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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Gifford, Frank

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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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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Ford, Henry