Motivational Quotes

Belief

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Belief

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Valery, Paul

We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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.

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

Swift, Jonathan

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Proverb, French

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Foreman, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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

Froude, James A.

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Brown, Les

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

Gifford, Frank

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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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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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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 personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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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.

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian