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

1.

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

Gomez, Foka

2.

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

Hare, David

3.

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

Valery, Paul

4.

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

Mencken, H. L.

5.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

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

12.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

13.

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

Gerry Spence

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

17.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

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

Mill, John Stuart

19.

Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

20.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

21.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

22.

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

25.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

26.

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.

27.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

28.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

29.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

30.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

31.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

32.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

33.

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

34.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

35.

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

36.

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

37.

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

Palmer, Arnold

38.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

42.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

44.

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

45.

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

Nizer, Louis

46.

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

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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

Foreman, George

48.

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