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

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

Noah Porter

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

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

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.

If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Buffett, Warren

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Proverb, French

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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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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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Laurence J. Peter

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Swift, Jonathan

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid