Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Belief

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Saying, Traditional

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Hellman, Lillian

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Hare, David

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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

Miller, Henry

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Noah Porter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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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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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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 is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson