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 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.

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

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

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

Brown, Les

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Proverb, French

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Valvano, Jim

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Wilde, Oscar

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Foreman, George

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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Hare, David

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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 can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

James, William

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jenkins, David

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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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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 moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Bach, Richard

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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