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

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.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Proverb, French

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Gerry Spence

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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