Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Noah Porter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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.

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

Jenkins, David

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

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Epictetus

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Bach, Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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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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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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.

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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