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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Lilly, John C.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Virkkala, Timothy

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

James, William

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

Noah Porter

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

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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.

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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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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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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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Epictetus

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Froude, James A.

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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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