Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man makes holy what he believes.

- Renan, Ernest

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Buckle, George Earle

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.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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.

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

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hare, David

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Stein, Ben

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Noah Porter

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Gerry Spence

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

Leo Rosten

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cousins, Norman

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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

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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 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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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