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

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

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

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

Gerry Spence

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Bach, Richard

If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Epictetus

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Pascal, Blaise

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

Noah Porter

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Waitley, Denis

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Ross, Ruth

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Hare, David

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent