Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man is what he believes.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Ovid

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Hare, David

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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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.

Cannon's Law

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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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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Leo Rosten

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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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.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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.

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Oscar Wilde

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Proverb, French

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

Nizer, Louis

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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

Trollope, Anthony

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.