Motivational Quotes

Belief

Loving is half of believing.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Leo Rosten

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

Lewis Carroll

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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 it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Oscar Wilde

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Voltaire

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Kafka, Franz

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Belief creates the actual fact.