Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Belief

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

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

Buffett, Warren

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hellman, Lillian

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Brown, Les

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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 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.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

James, William

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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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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

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

Noah Porter

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Mill, John Stuart