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

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Stein, Ben

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Noah Porter

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Leo Rosten

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

Jenkins, David

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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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