Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Belief

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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.

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

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Epictetus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Brown, Les

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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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 nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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