Motivational Quotes

Belief

Men willingly believe what they wish.

- Julius Caesar

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Noah Porter

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Voltaire

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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

Hare, David

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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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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Foreman, George

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Brown, Les

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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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