Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Foreman, George

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

Saying, Traditional

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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.

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

Miller, Henry

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Ditka, Mike

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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.

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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