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

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gerry Spence

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barnum, P.T.

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Fuller, Thomas

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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

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

Foreman, George

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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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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.