Quotes about belief




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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 on belief    Share


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

Chesterfield, Lord on belief    Share

"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 on belief    Share

"He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed."

Colton, Charles Caleb on belief    Share

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

Cordero Jr., Angel on belief    Share

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

Cousins, Norman on belief    Share

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock on belief    Share

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."

Demosthenes on belief
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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. on belief
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"The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all."

Dickinson, Emily on belief    Share

"I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it."

Ditka, Mike on belief    Share

"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 on belief
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"You'll see it when you believe it."

Dyer, Wayne on belief
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"Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems."

Eliot, George on belief    Share

"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on belief
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"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on belief
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"All the great ages have been ages of belief."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on belief    Share

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

Epictetus on belief
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"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 on belief    Share

"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."

Ford, Henry on belief
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"I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring."

Foreman, George on belief    Share

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

France, Anatole on belief
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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 on belief
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"The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness."

Froude, James A. on belief    Share

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

Fuller, Thomas on belief
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"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time."

Giacomini, Lynwood L. on belief
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"Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture."

Gifford, Frank on belief    Share

"He is dead in this world who has no belief in another."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on belief    Share

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on belief
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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 on belief    Share

"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on belief
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"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."

Gomez, Foka on belief
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"Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early."

Grass, Gunther on belief    Share

"People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe."

Gutzkow on belief    Share

"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."

Hare, David on belief    Share

"Belief gets in the way of learning."

Heinlein, Robert on belief
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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 on belief    Share

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

Hill, Napoleon on belief
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"Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible."

Hodges, H. A. on belief    Share

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