Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Best Quotes about Belief

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

James, William

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Valery, Paul

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.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hare, David

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gerry Spence

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

Oscar Wilde

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Brown, Les

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bach, Richard

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold