Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

John Lilly

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brown, Les

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Stein, Ben

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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 creates the actual fact.

James, William

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Miller, Henry

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bach, Richard

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Proverb, French

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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

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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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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos