Motivational Quotes

Belief

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

- Ralph Hodgson

Best Quotes about Belief

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Noah Porter

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

Lewis Carroll

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gerry Spence

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Lilly, John C.

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Epictetus

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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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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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Waitley, Denis

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Russell, Bertrand