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

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.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Lewis Carroll

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Gerry Spence

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Froude, James A.

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

James, William

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

Hare, David

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

Proverb, French

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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