Motivational Quotes

Belief

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Brown, Les

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

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

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Lewis Carroll

11.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

12.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

13.

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

14.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Ditka, Mike

17.

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

18.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

19.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

23.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Barker, Joel A.

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

29.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

30.

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

31.

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

Brown, Les

32.

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

33.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Froude, James A.

38.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

39.

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

40.

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

Epictetus

41.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

42.

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

43.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

46.

You must see first before you can believe.