Motivational Quotes

Belief

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Nizer, Louis

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Mill, John Stuart

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Valery, Paul

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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