Motivational Quotes

Belief

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Noah Porter

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

James, William

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.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Laurence J. Peter

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Barnum, P.T.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

29.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Oscar Wilde

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stein, Ben

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian