Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Epictetus

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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

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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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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.