Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Saying, Traditional

Best Quotes about Belief

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Borne, Ludwig

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Jenkins, David

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

Leo Rosten

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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Cousins, Norman

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Ovid

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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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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Proverb, French

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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 can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray