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

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Valery, Paul

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

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

Nizer, Louis

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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 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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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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Saying, Traditional

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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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.

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the 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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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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.