Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nizer, Louis

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

James, William

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

Noah Porter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Proverb, French

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent