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

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

Ford, Henry

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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.

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

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

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

Saying, Traditional

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

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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Ovid

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

Valery, Paul

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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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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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Noah Porter

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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.