Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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.

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

Borne, Ludwig

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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

James, William

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Gerry Spence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Noah Porter

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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

Nizer, Louis

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Brown, Les

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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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

Saying, Traditional

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

Froude, James A.

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis