Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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.

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

Leo Rosten

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

John Lilly

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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Noah Porter

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Laurence J. Peter

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Voltaire

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

Ovid

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Proverb, French

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Brown, Les

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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