Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Jenkins, David

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Gomez, Foka

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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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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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