Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

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

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

John Lilly

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

Waitley, Denis

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Noah Porter

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

Ditka, Mike

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Leo Rosten

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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

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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 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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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.

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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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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

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.