Motivational Quotes

Belief

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Belief

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Miller, Henry

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Laurence J. Peter

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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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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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 gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Ovid

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Noah Porter

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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