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

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.

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Leo Rosten

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Noah Porter

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Gerry Spence

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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

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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

Ovid

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Hare, David

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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

Froude, James A.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.