Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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.

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

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

Miller, Henry

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Ovid

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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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

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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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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 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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Noah Porter

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

Proverb, French

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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