Motivational Quotes

Belief

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

- Gutzkow

Best Quotes about Belief

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Borne, Ludwig

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Foreman, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gifford, Frank

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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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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

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

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Saying, Traditional

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ovid

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De