Motivational Quotes

Belief

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hill, Napoleon

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Leo Rosten

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Proverb, French

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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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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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Swift, Jonathan

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Stein, Ben

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

Noah Porter

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Oscar Wilde

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Men willingly believe what they wish.