Motivational Quotes

Belief

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

Stein, Ben

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

Valery, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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.

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Rostand, Jean

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Foreman, George

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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

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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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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Borne, Ludwig

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Laurence J. Peter

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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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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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