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

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bartholomew, Saint

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

James, William

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Valery, Paul

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Noah Porter

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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