Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lewis Carroll

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Noah Porter

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

Froude, James A.

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Brown, Les

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Hodges, H. A.

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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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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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.