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

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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 don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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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 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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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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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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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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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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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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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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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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