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

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

Froude, James A.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Waitley, Denis

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Nizer, Louis

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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