Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Belief

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

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

Gerry Spence

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

Russell, Bertrand

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Saying, Traditional

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Lippmann, Walter

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Ovid

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

Waitley, Denis

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Noah Porter

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Froude, James A.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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

John Lilly

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Miller, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von