Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Belief

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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.

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

Gerry Spence

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Noah Porter

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lewis Carroll

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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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 believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Epictetus

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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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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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