Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Hellman, Lillian

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Dickinson, Emily

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Wilde, Oscar

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

John Lilly

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Hodges, H. A.

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Epictetus

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ovid

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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