Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Belief

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

John Lilly

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

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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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.

Augustine, St.

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lilly, John C.

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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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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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'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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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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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard