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

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

Proverb, French

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Seligan, Martin

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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 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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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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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Laurence J. Peter

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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.