Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Belief

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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.

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

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

Voltaire

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Ford, Henry

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Waitley, Denis

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Noah Porter

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

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Froude, James A.

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

Gomez, Foka

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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.

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Epictetus

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

Gerry Spence

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Jenkins, David

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

Russell, Bertrand