Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Belief

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Froude, James A.

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

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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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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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Wilde, Oscar

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Proverb, French

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Leo Rosten

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

Brown, Les

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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.