Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Ditka, Mike

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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Dyer, Wayne

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Ovid

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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

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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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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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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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Fuller, 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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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.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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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