Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Belief

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

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

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ditka, Mike

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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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

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

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Oscar

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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