Motivational Quotes

Belief

Belief gets in the way of learning.

- Heinlein, Robert

Best Quotes about Belief

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

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Epictetus

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Ford, Henry

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

James, William

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gerry Spence

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Hodges, H. A.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Ovid

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von