Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Hodges, H. A.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Stein, Ben

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Noah Porter

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

15.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

James, William

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

29.

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.

30.

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

Nizer, Louis

31.

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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ovid

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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

46.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Leo Rosten

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence