Motivational Quotes

Belief

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Belief

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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.

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.

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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Miller, Henry

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Stein, Ben

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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

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Leo Rosten

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Laurence J. Peter

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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