Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Caesar, Julius

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lewis Carroll

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Noah Porter

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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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

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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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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Leo Rosten

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

John Lilly

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, French

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

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