Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Belief

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Brown, Les

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

John Lilly

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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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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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Epictetus

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

James, William

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Oscar Wilde

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Hare, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

Foreman, George

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

Borne, Ludwig

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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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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.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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