Motivational Quotes

Belief

Belief creates the actual fact.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Brown, Les

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Epictetus

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kafka, Franz

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Leo Rosten

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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Saying, Traditional

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