Quotes about belief

"People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm."

Ovid on belief   

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."

Paine, Thomas on belief   

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

Palmer, Arnold on belief   

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

Peale, Norman Vincent on belief
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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 on belief   

"All beliefs are bald ideas."

Picabia, Francis on belief   

"Men are most apt to believe what they least understand."

Pliny The Elder on belief   

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

Proverb, French on belief
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"Man makes holy what he believes."

Renan, Ernest on belief   

"What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are."

Robbins, Anthony on belief   

"All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief."

Robbins, Anthony on belief
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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 on belief   

"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 on belief
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"To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will."

Robinson, Sugar Ray on belief   

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on belief
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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. on belief   

"We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve."

Ross, Ruth on belief   

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

Rostand, Jean on belief   

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

Rosten, Leo on belief   

"Every dogma has its day."

Rotstein, Abraham on belief   

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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 on belief   

"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself."

Russell, Bertrand on belief   

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

Russell, Bertrand on belief
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"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on belief   

"I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

Sarandon, Susan on belief   

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

Saying, Traditional on belief
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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. on belief
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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. on belief   

"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. on belief   

"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 on belief   

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

Seligan, Martin on belief   

"Seeing is not always believing."

Serling, Rod on belief   

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"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely."

Smith, Lillian on belief   

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

Stein, Ben on belief
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"The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome."

Swift, Jonathan on belief   

"I believe because it is impossible."

Terence on belief   

"You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly."

Terence on belief