Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

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.

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

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

Nizer, Louis

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Swift, Jonathan

11.

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

12.

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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Lewis Carroll

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hare, David

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

Oscar Wilde

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

James, William

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

Borne, Ludwig

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Gerry Spence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Noah Porter

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas