Motivational Quotes

Belief

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

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

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

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

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Noah Porter

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hare, David

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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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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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nizer, Louis

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