Motivational Quotes

Belief

We are what we believe we are

- Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Gifford, Frank

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Hare, David

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Gerry Spence

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Kafka, Franz

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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 can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Noah Porter

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

Lewis Carroll