Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Laurence J. Peter

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

Ovid

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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.

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Leo Rosten

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

James, William

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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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 be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil