Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nizer, Louis

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Dickinson, Emily

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Waitley, Denis

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Froude, James A.

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

Noah Porter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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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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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Gerry Spence

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Laurence J. Peter