Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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

Gerry Spence

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Gifford, Frank

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

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

Froude, James A.

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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.

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

Hare, David

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

James, William

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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 must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Brown, Les

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Valery, Paul

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.