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

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

Brown, Les

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Seligan, Martin

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.

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

Palmer, Arnold

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Noah Porter

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Froude, James A.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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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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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

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Wilde, Oscar

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Leo Rosten

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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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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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.