Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lewis Carroll

Best Quotes about Belief

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Brown, Les

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hare, David

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

28.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, French

31.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Foreman, George

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

Gomez, Foka

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

41.

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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Cousins, Norman

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les