Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Cordero Jr., Angel

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Proverb, French

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Foreman, George

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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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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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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.