Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Gerry Spence

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

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

Rostand, Jean

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

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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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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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Laurence J. Peter

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Foreman, George

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

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cousins, Norman

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Oscar Wilde

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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.