Motivational Quotes

Belief

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Gerry Spence

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

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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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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

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

Foreman, George

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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.

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

Noah Porter

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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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

Nizer, Louis

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Lewis Carroll

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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.

Marshall, Peter

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest