Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Virkkala, Timothy

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Valery, Paul

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Virkkala, Timothy

10.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Ovid

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Voltaire

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

Rostand, Jean

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Kafka, Franz

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

Hare, David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von