Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

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

Noah Porter

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.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Valery, Paul

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

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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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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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

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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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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

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Oscar Wilde

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Epictetus

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Voltaire

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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

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