Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Noah Porter

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.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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.

17.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

18.

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

Gomez, Foka

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

20.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

21.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Epictetus

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Ovid

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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

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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

Ford, Henry