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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

John Lilly

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Hare, David

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

Wilde, Oscar

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Foreman, George

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Rostand, Jean

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Leo Rosten