Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Nizer, Louis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Brown, Les

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Proverb, French

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

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Valery, Paul

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Bach, Richard

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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 don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Gomez, Foka

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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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Rostand, Jean

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.