Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Belief

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Ditka, Mike

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Epictetus

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

Valery, Paul

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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

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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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.

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

Foreman, George

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 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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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.

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

Nizer, Louis

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Froude, James A.

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.