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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hare, David

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

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Lilly, John C.

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