Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Brown, Les

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

Jenkins, David

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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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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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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Foreman, George

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Epictetus

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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