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

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

Jenkins, David

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

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

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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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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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.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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

Ovid

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Stein, Ben

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

Foreman, George

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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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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

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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

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Leo Rosten

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Seligan, Martin