Motivational Quotes

Belief

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Belief

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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

James, William

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.

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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Noah Porter

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

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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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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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

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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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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Bach, Richard

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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.