Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Oscar Wilde

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

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

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.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Proverb, French

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Voltaire

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Froude, James A.

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

Gomez, Foka

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Nizer, Louis

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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