Motivational Quotes

Belief

Loving is half of believing.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hare, David

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

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Valvano, Jim

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lewis Carroll

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Noah Porter

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Brown, Les

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

Voltaire

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Valery, Paul

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

Lilly, John C.

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Brown, Les

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

John Lilly

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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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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.