Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

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

Jenkins, David

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Leo Rosten

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, French

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Noah Porter

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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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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gerry Spence

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Valvano, Jim

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

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank