Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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

Noah Porter

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nizer, Louis

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Foreman, George

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Valery, Paul

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Mill, John Stuart

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Brown, Les

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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