Motivational Quotes

Belief

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

- Saint Augustine

Best Quotes about Belief

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

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

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Brown, Les

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Gerry Spence

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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