Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Oscar Wilde

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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.

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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 can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Gomez, Foka

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

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.