Motivational Quotes

Belief

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

- Saint Augustine

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Valvano, Jim

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

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Noah Porter

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Seligan, Martin

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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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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Laurence J. Peter

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Ovid

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bach, Richard

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

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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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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Oscar Wilde

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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.