Motivational Quotes

Belief

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

- Gutzkow

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Bach, Richard

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

James, William

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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's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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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.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Oscar Wilde

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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

Valvano, Jim

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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

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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 believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Rostand, Jean

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar