Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

Augustine, St.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Thomas, Isiah

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.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Hare, David

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Gerry Spence

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

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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.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, French

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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

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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

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Kafka, Franz

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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