Motivational Quotes

Belief

Loving is half of believing.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Ovid

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

Palmer, Arnold

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gerry Spence

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

Voltaire

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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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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Chesterfield, Lord