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

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

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

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

Nizer, Louis

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

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

10.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

11.

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

Valery, Paul

12.

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

Lippmann, Walter

13.

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

Miller, Henry

14.

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.

15.

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

Foreman, George

16.

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

Thomas, Isiah

17.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

18.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

19.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

20.

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

21.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

22.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

23.

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

24.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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.

26.

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.

27.

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

Waitley, Denis

28.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

29.

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

30.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

31.

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

Proverb, French

32.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

33.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

34.

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

35.

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

39.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

40.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Noah Porter

44.

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

Ford, Henry

45.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.

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

Hellman, Lillian

47.

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.

48.

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.

49.

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

Hodges, H. A.

50.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence