Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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

Noah Porter

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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

Ovid

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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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

Hare, David

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Ditka, Mike

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Gerry Spence