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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Leo Rosten

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kafka, Franz

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 believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Nizer, Louis

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

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

Bach, Richard

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

22.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

24.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Gerry Spence

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

Foreman, George

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ovid

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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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

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

49.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hill, Napoleon