Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

- Bakker, Jim

Best Quotes about Belief

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Gerry Spence

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

Valery, Paul

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

12.

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.

Jung, Carl

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Ovid

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

Bartholomew, Saint

17.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.

Ching Ning Chu

19.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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

21.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

24.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

25.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Froude, James A.

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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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

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Voltaire

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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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