Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Nizer, Louis

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Brown, Les

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hare, David