Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Nizer, Louis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Russell, Bertrand

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

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.

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.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Jenkins, David

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Brown, Les

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Barnum, P.T.

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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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