Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Saying, Traditional

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

James, William

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lippmann, Walter

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

33.

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

Gomez, Foka

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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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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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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Ovid

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Froude, James A.

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

Epictetus

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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