Motivational Quotes

Belief

You must see first before you can believe.

- Holliwell, Raymond

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Ford, Henry

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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.

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

Foreman, George

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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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 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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

James, William

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Saying, Traditional

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

Noah Porter

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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