Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Froude, James A.

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

Foreman, George

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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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

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Noah Porter