Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Hill, Napoleon

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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

Brown, Les

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ovid

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Foreman, George

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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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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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

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Nizer, Louis

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