Motivational Quotes

Belief

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Ovid

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.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Nizer, Louis

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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 started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Proverb, French

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Noah Porter

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Hare, David

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Caesar, Julius

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil