Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Belief

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Virkkala, Timothy

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Epictetus

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Brown, Les

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Bach, Richard

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Saying, Traditional

31.

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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

Ovid

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hare, David

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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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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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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