Motivational Quotes

Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Seligan, Martin

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

John Lilly

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Lewis Carroll

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl