Motivational Quotes

Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lippmann, Walter

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gomez, Foka

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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

Hare, David

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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 never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

James, William

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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