Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Giacomini, Lynwood L.

Best Quotes about Belief

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Valvano, Jim

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Leo Rosten

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Barnum, P.T.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hare, David

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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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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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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Bach, Richard

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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 must see first before you can believe.