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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Palmer, Arnold

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Lilly, John C.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Foreman, George

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Valery, Paul

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Noah Porter

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

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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