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Belief

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

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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.

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

Epictetus

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

Foreman, George

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

Leo Rosten

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

Dickinson, Emily

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kafka, Franz

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Hare, David

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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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.

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Valery, Paul

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

Proverb, French

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seligan, Martin

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von