Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Hodges, H. A.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

James, William

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

Nizer, Louis

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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

Foreman, George

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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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

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

Ovid

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Russell, Bertrand