Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man is what he believes.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Belief

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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.

Carroll, Lewis

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Stein, Ben

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

Ford, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Thomas, Isiah

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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.

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Valvano, Jim

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Voltaire

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Ovid

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

Bach, Richard

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

Rostand, Jean

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.