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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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

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

Valery, Paul

We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Gerry Spence

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Miller, Henry

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Barnum, P.T.

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.