Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Belief

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Gerry Spence

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Barnum, P.T.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Leo Rosten

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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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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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

James, William

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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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

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.