Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Ross, Ruth

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

Buddha

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Palmer, Arnold

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

Brown, Les

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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.

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Miller, Henry

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Gerry Spence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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.