Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

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

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.

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Gifford, Frank

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Bach, Richard

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

Oscar Wilde

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Brown, Les

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Foreman, George

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Noah Porter