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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Noah Porter

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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

Hare, David

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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 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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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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

Epictetus

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Proverb, French

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Valery, Paul

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Lewis Carroll

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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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 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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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 it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De