Motivational Quotes

Belief

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

- Mcwilliams, Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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.

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

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

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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Oscar Wilde

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Epictetus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

41.

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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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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