Motivational Quotes

Belief

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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.

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

Swift, Jonathan

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Mill, John Stuart

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Lippmann, Walter

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

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

Leo Rosten

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Foreman, George

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Hare, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Proverb, French

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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