Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Kazantzakis, Nikos

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

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.

11.

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

12.

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

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

16.

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

Froude, James A.

17.

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

18.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

23.

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

Brown, Les

24.

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

25.

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

26.

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

Foreman, George

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

32.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

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

Hodges, H. A.

34.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

35.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

36.

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

37.

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

Barnum, P.T.

38.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

39.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

40.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

45.

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.

46.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

Leo Rosten

49.

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.