Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Belief

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Valvano, Jim

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Leo Rosten

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Epictetus

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Froude, James A.

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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