Quote: If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
Author: Alfred A. Montapert American Author
Quote: What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
Author: Mike Murdock
Quote: Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
Author: Louis Nizer 1902-1904, British Born American Lawyer, Writer
Quote: People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.
Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Author: Thomas Paine 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer
Quote: I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
Author: Arnold Palmer 1929-, American Golfer
Quote: 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.
Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: 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.
Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ''I believe,'' three times. Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Author: William Lyon Phelps
Quote: All beliefs are bald ideas. Author: Francis Picabia 1878-1953, French Painter, Poet
Quote: Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Author: Pliny The Elder c.23-79, Roman Neophatonist
Quote: To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.
Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: Man makes holy what he believes.
Author: Ernest Renan 1823-1892, French Writer, Critic, Scholar
Quote: 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.
Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: 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.
Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: 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.
Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: 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.
Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Author: Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989, American Boxer
Quote: 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.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian
Quote: The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA
Quote: We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve. Author: Ruth Ross
Quote: The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Author: Jean Rostand 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer
Quote: I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Author: Leo Rosten 1908-1997, Polish Born American Political Scientist
Quote: Every dogma has its day.
Author: Abraham Rotstein
Quote: My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
Author: Wilma Rudolph 1940-1994, American Track Athlete
Quote: What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: 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.
Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Susan Sarandon 1946-, American Actress
Quote: For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
Author: Traditional Saying
Quote: 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.
Author: David J. Schwartz American Trainer, Author of ''The Magic of Thinking Big''
Quote: 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.
Author: David J. Schwartz American Trainer, Author of ''The Magic of Thinking Big''
Quote: 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.
Author: David J. Schwartz American Trainer, Author of ''The Magic of Thinking Big''
Quote: 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.
Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947-, Austrian-born American Actor, Author, Director, Restaurateur
Quote: Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
Author: Martin Seligan
Quote: Seeing is not always believing.
Author: Rod Serling 1924-1975, American Television Script-writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Lillian Smith 1897-1966, American Author
Quote: You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
Author: Ben Stein American Professor, Writer
Quote: The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist
Quote: I believe because it is impossible.
Author: Terence BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies
Quote: You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
Author: Terence BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies
Quote: I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
Author: Isiah Thomas American Basketball Player, Coach
Quote: Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
Author: Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
Quote: And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning
Author: Anthony Trollope 1815-1882, British Novelist
Quote: At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Beware of assumptions! Whatever you ''assume'' to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The very act of believing creates strength of its own.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Author: Paul Valery 1871-1945, French Poet, Essayist
Quote: My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Author: Jim Valvano American College Basketball Coach
Quote: 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.
Author: F. D. Van Amburgh
Quote: They can because they think they can.
Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.
Author: Timothy Virkkala
Quote: If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Author: Alan W. Watts 1915-1973, British-born American Philosopher, Author
Quote: You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.
Author: Marcia Wieder American Speaker, Trainer, Author
Quote: The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
Author: Robert Wilson 1941-, American Theater Director, Designer
Quote: The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Author: Oprah Winfrey 1954-, American TV Personality, Producer, Actress, Author
Quote: The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
Author: James Allen 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''
Quote: Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic
Quote: 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.
Author: Wally Amos American Businessman, Founder, Famous Amos Cookies
Quote: If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
Author: Dr. Robert Anthony American educator
Quote: If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
Quote: Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Author: Richard Bach 1936-, American Author
Quote: Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Author: Walter Bagehot 1826-1877, British Economist, Critic
Quote: 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.
Author: Jim Bakker 1940-, American Evangelist
Quote: 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.
Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
Author: Joel A. Barker American Businessman, Consultant, Author
Quote: More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
Author: P.T. Barnum 1810-1891, American Showman, Entertainer, Circus Builder
Quote: Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Author: Sir James M. Barrie 1860-1937, British Playwright
Quote: Once you begin to believe there is help ''out there,'' you will know it to be true.
Author: Saint Bartholomew
Quote: The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
Author: Bruce Barton 1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive
Quote: Everything is possible for him who believes.
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Author: Shirley Temple Black 1928-, American Film Child Star
Quote: Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Author: Ludwig Borne
Quote: Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
Author: Claude M. Bristol 1891-1951, American Author of ''The Magic of Believing''
Quote: Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.
Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
Author: George Earle Buckle 1854-1935, British Journalist
Quote: 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.
Author: Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
Quote: I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Author: Warren Buffett 1930-, American Investment Entrepreneur
Quote: It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
Author: John Burroughs 1837-1921, American Naturalist, Author
Quote: Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: Men freely believe that which they desire.
Author: Julius Caesar 101-44 BC, Roman Emperor
Quote: Men willingly believe what they wish.
Author: Julius Caesar 101-44 BC, Roman Emperor
Quote: What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Author: Julius Caesar 101-44 BC, Roman Emperor
Quote: 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.
Author: Cannon's Law
Quote: We are what we believe we are
Author: Benjamin N. Cardozo 1870-1938, American Jurist, Supreme Court Justice
Quote: 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.
Author: Curtis Carlson American Businessman, Founder of Carlson Companies, Inc.
Quote: Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: ''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.''
Author: Lewis Carroll 1832-1898, British Writer, Mathematician
Quote: Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.
Author: Lewis Carroll 1832-1898, British Writer, Mathematician
Quote: 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.
Author: Michel De Certeau French Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin 1881-1955, French Christian Mystic, Author
Quote: Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author
Quote: 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.
Author: Ching Ning Chu Chinese-American Businesswoman, Lecturer, Author
Quote: He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
Author: Angel Cordero Jr.
Quote: Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
Author: Norman Cousins 1915-1990, American Editor, Humanitarian, Author
Quote: Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
Author: Dinah Mulock Craik
Quote: Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Author: Demosthenes c.383-322 BC, Greek Orator
Quote: 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.
Author: Richard M. DeVos 1926-, American Businessman, Co-founder of Amway Corp.
Quote: The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet
Quote: I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
Author: Mike Ditka American Football Player, Coach of Chicago Bears
Quote: 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.
Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: You'll see it when you believe it.
Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: All the great ages have been ages of belief.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: 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.
Author: Patrick Ewing 1962-, American Basketball Player
Quote: He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.
Author: George Foreman 1949-, American Boxer
Quote: To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Author: Anatole France 1844-1924, French Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
Quote: The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
Author: James A. Froude 1818-1894, British Historian
Quote: He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Author: Lynwood L. Giacomini
Quote: Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Author: Frank Gifford American sportscaster
Quote: He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: 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.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Author: Foka Gomez
Quote: Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
Author: Gunther Grass 1927-, German Author
Quote: People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
Author: Gutzkow
Quote: The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Author: David Hare 1947-, British Playwright, Director
Quote: To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.
Author: Jeremy W. Hayward
Quote: Belief gets in the way of learning.
Author: Robert Heinlein 1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer
Quote: It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Author: Lillian Hellman 1905-1984, American Playwright
Quote: What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Author: H. A. Hodges
Quote: You must see first before you can believe.
Author: Raymond Holliwell
Quote: Loving is half of believing.
Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: Belief creates the actual fact.
Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: 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.
Author: Gerald G. Jampolsky American Psychiatrist, Lecturer, Author
Quote: As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
Author: David Jenkins 1925-, British Ecclesiastic, Bishop of Durham
Quote: Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: 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.
Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
Author: Franz Kafka 1883-1924, German Novelist, Short-Story Writer
Quote: By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis 1883-1957, Greek Writer
Quote: It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Author: Michael Korda 1919-, American publisher
Quote: 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.
Author: Louis Kronenberger
Quote: Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Author: Jean De La Fontaine 1621-1695, French Poet
Quote: 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.
Author: Martin Lawrence 1965-, German-born American Actor, Comedian, Director, Producer, Writer
Quote: First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist
Quote: With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist
Quote: With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist
Quote: In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
Author: John C. Lilly 1915-, American Doctor, Author
Quote: Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
Author: John C. Lilly 1915-, American Doctor, Author
Quote: If you think you can do it, you can.
Author: Eric Lindros 1973-, Canadian Hockey Player
Quote: Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Author: Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American Journalist
Quote: We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
Author: Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American Journalist
Quote: Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quote: Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
Author: Andrew V. Madson
Quote: 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.
Author: General Peyton C. March
Quote: 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.
Author: Peter Marshall 1902-1949, American Presbyterian Clergyman
Quote: It is easier to believe than to doubt.
Author: Everett D. Martin
Quote: When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
Author: Peter Mcwilliams American Author of ''Life 101''
Quote: It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Author: John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist
Quote: What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Author: Olin Miller
Quote: How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?
Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist