Motivational Quotes

Belief

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Belief

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Gerry Spence

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.

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

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Nizer, Louis

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Swift, Jonathan

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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 fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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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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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