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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Bach, Richard

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Epictetus

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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 are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Valery, Paul

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Lewis Carroll

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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

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor