Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Voltaire

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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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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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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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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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nizer, Louis

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Proverb, French

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

Hare, David

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kafka, Franz

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Epictetus

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Brown, Les

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

Caesar, Julius