Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Palmer, Arnold

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Ovid

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

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Noah Porter

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

Leo Rosten

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

Hare, David

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ditka, Mike

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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