Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Hare, David

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.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Brown, Les

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine 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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Voltaire

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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

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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

James, William

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Jenkins, David

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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 can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.