Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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

Ross, Ruth

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

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

Voltaire

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

Noah Porter

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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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

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying, Traditional

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gerry Spence

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