Motivational Quotes

Belief

Belief creates the actual fact.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Belief

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Froude, James A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

Oscar Wilde

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Valvano, Jim

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Epictetus

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