Motivational Quotes

Belief

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

- Gutzkow

Best Quotes about Belief

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Noah Porter

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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Froude, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ditka, Mike

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Voltaire

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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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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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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Leo Rosten

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buckle, George Earle

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah