Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Belief

We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oscar Wilde

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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

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.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Stein, Ben

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Gerry Spence

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hare, David

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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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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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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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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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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.

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Voltaire

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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