Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hare, David

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Palmer, Arnold

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Voltaire

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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 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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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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

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick