Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gifford, Frank

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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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

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ovid

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Noah Porter

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Proverb, French

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Ditka, Mike

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

James, William

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

Voltaire

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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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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible