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

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

Miller, Henry

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.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

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

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

James, William

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Leo Rosten

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Brown, Les

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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 Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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