Motivational Quotes

Belief

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Swift, Jonathan

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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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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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Foreman, George

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Brown, Les

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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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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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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