Motivational Quotes

Belief

Men freely believe that which they desire.

- Caesar, Julius

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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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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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.

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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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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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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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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.

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Miller, Henry

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Oscar Wilde

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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.

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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