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

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Leo Rosten

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Froude, James A.

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Noah Porter

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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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.

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

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Voltaire

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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.