Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Noah Porter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Valery, Paul

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Froude, James A.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Proverb, French

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Fuller, Thomas

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

36.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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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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 will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Mcwilliams, Peter