Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Ovid

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

Gerry Spence

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

Miller, Henry

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

Russell, Bertrand

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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.

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

Caesar, Julius

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Lippmann, Walter

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Gifford, Frank

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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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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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