Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Laurence J. Peter

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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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.

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

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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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

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Leo Rosten

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Epictetus

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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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.