Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Mcwilliams, Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

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

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Wilde, Oscar

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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

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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Brown, Les

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miller, Henry

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Ovid

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Ditka, Mike