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

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

Proverb, French

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

Jenkins, David

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

Hare, David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Saying, Traditional

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Gomez, Foka

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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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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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

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Barton, Bruce

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.