Motivational Quotes

Belief

Belief creates the actual fact.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Belief

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

Leo Rosten

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

11.

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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Palmer, Arnold

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

18.

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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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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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Lewis Carroll

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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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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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bartholomew, Saint

30.

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

31.

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

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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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Foreman, George

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

Cousins, Norman

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Kafka, Franz

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