Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Belief

The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

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.

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

Laurence J. Peter

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Ditka, Mike

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Voltaire

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

Caesar, Julius

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Hare, David

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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 never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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 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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim