Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Thomas, Isiah

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Bach, Richard

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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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

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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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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 creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.