Motivational Quotes

Belief

Men willingly believe what they wish.

- Julius Caesar

Best Quotes about Belief

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Oscar Wilde

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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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

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Epictetus

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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

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

Leo Rosten

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Noah Porter

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von