Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Buffett, Warren

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Epictetus

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

10.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

12.

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

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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.

17.

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

18.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

27.

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

Hare, David

28.

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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

33.

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

Waitley, Denis

34.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

35.

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.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Bach, Richard

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

39.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

41.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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

43.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

45.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

48.

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

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

Kafka, Franz