Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Froude, James A.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Jenkins, David

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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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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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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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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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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

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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

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

Valery, Paul

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

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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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Mill, John Stuart

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Noah Porter

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah