Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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.

Augustine, St.

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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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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly