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

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Borne, Ludwig

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mencken, H. L.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

James, William

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Belief gets in the way of learning.