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

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Jenkins, David

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

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

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

Ovid

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Wilde, Oscar

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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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 personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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 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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Gerry Spence

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