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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Leo Rosten

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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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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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Jenkins, David

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lewis Carroll

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Foreman, George

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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

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike