Motivational Quotes

Belief

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

- Saint Augustine

Best Quotes about Belief

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

Noah Porter

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Voltaire

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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 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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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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 started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Miller, Henry

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Gerry Spence

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Foreman, George

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Leo Rosten

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