Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Hodges, H. A.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Lilly, John C.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Swift, Jonathan

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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

Laurence J. Peter

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buckle, George Earle

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Miller, Henry

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

Noah Porter

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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