Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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.

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

Voltaire

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

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Ditka, Mike

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.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Valery, Paul

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Epictetus

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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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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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Noah Porter

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brown, Les

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

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

James, William

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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.