Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Belief

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

10.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

11.

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

12.

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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.

19.

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

Laurence J. Peter

20.

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

21.

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

23.

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

24.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Hodges, H. A.

30.

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

Russell, Bertrand

31.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

32.

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

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

35.

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

Nizer, Louis

37.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

38.

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

39.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

40.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

45.

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

46.

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

47.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

48.

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

Ovid

49.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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