Motivational Quotes

Belief

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Oscar Wilde

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

James, William

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

Brown, Les

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Ditka, Mike

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Foreman, George

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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

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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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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

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Waitley, Denis

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Gerry Spence

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

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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