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

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

Barnum, P.T.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Proverb, French

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Gomez, Foka

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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hare, David

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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 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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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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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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.

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Bach, Richard

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

John Lilly

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Buckle, George Earle

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Lewis Carroll