Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Noah Porter

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Borne, Ludwig

10.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Oscar Wilde

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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

Cousins, Norman

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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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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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.

37.

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

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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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

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.