Motivational Quotes

Belief

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

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

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

Noah Porter

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

Palmer, Arnold

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.

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

Hodges, H. A.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Leo Rosten

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

Anthony, Dr. 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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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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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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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Saying, Traditional

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Proverb, French

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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.