Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Belief

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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.

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

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Hare, David

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

Gerry Spence

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

Froude, James A.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Ford, Henry

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Foreman, George

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cousins, Norman

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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.