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

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Foreman, George

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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

Noah Porter

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Kafka, Franz

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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

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Voltaire

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

Bach, Richard

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

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Valery, Paul

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

Gifford, Frank

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Brown, Les

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon