Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Valery, Paul

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Foreman, George

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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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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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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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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hare, David

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, French

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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