Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Mcwilliams, Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Dickinson, Emily

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

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

Epictetus

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

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

Noah Porter

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Leo Rosten

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

Gerry Spence

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Miller, Henry

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

James, William

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Foreman, George

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men freely believe that which they desire.