Motivational Quotes

Belief

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

- Jenkins, David

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Gifford, Frank

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

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

Noah Porter

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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

12.

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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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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Bach, Richard

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Lewis Carroll

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barnum, P.T.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis