Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Hellman, Lillian

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Leo Rosten

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Cousins, Norman

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, French

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

Noah Porter

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ovid

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Gerry Spence

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

Ditka, Mike

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren