Motivational Quotes

Belief

You must see first before you can believe.

- Holliwell, Raymond

Best Quotes about Belief

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Ovid

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

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

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

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

Bach, Richard

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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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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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Noah Porter

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Leo Rosten

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.