Motivational Quotes

Belief

Belief gets in the way of learning.

- Heinlein, Robert

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Ross, Ruth

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Rostand, Jean

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Gerry Spence

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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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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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

James, William

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Leo Rosten

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nizer, Louis

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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

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Stein, Ben

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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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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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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