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

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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

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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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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Hare, David

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

Noah Porter

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Oscar Wilde

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kafka, Franz

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.