Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Laurence J. Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

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

Hare, David

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

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

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

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Epictetus

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

James, William

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

Laurence J. Peter

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Nizer, Louis

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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