Motivational Quotes

Belief

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

- Saint Augustine

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Ditka, Mike

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

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Noah Porter

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Ovid

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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.

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Foreman, George

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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

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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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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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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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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.