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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Foreman, George

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Dickinson, Emily

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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

Gerry Spence

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

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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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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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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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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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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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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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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Nizer, Louis

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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 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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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.