Motivational Quotes

Belief

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

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

Hodges, H. A.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Leo Rosten

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

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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

11.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Froude, James A.

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

Noah Porter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Barker, Joel A.

25.

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

Ovid

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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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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

32.

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

Voltaire

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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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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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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

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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 we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Barnum, P.T.

41.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

42.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo