Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Ross, Ruth

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

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

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

John Lilly

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

Stein, Ben

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Froude, James A.

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Hare, David

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Noah Porter

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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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 would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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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 nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Brown, Les