Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Bartholomew, Saint

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Voltaire

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

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

Foreman, George

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

Buckle, George Earle

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

James, William

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

Valvano, Jim

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ford, Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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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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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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