Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Belief

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Swift, Jonathan

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.

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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

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Laurence J. Peter

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Noah Porter

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Ditka, Mike

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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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.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hare, David

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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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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

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

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saying, Traditional