Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Belief

1.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

3.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

4.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

5.

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.

6.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

7.

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

Dickinson, Emily

8.

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

Waitley, Denis

9.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

10.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

14.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Ford, Henry

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Saying, Traditional

20.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Ovid

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

Bartholomew, Saint

24.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

25.

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

Cousins, Norman

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

28.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

29.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

32.

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

Mill, John Stuart

33.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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

36.

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

Russell, Bertrand

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

39.

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

40.

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

Gifford, Frank

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Brown, Les

43.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

44.

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

Rostand, Jean

45.

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

Nizer, Louis

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