Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Caesar, Julius

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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.

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.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Foreman, George

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

Leo Rosten

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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

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

Nizer, Louis

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Noah Porter

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Epictetus

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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