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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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.

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

Ovid

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Gomez, Foka

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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 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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bach, Richard

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Brown, Les

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Stein, Ben

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

42.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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 wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.