Motivational Quotes

Belief

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Belief

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Thomas, Isiah

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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 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.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.

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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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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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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

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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Froude, James A.

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Epictetus

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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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