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

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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 believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Brown, Les

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

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Gerry Spence

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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.

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Noah Porter