Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Craik, Dinah Mulock

Best Quotes about 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

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Voltaire

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

Saying, Traditional

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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

Hare, David

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

28.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Epictetus

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Gerry Spence

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