Motivational Quotes

Belief

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Barker, Joel A.

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Hare, David

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Thomas, Isiah

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Valery, Paul

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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

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

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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