Motivational Quotes

Belief

Men freely believe that which they desire.

- Caesar, Julius

Best Quotes about Belief

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Gerry Spence

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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Brown, Les

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

Valvano, Jim

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

John Lilly

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Ditka, Mike

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Hare, David

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

Buffett, Warren

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.