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

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Cousins, Norman

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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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

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Oscar Wilde

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kafka, Franz

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil