Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Ditka, Mike

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.

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gerry Spence

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Ovid

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Hare, David

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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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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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

33.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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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

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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Epictetus

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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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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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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Carlyle, Thomas