Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Belief

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

James, William

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

Miller, Henry

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Froude, James A.

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

Brown, Les

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Epictetus

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

John Lilly

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Hill, Napoleon