Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Jenkins, David

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Hill, Napoleon

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Jenkins, David

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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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

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

Foreman, George

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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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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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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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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

Lewis Carroll

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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