Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Carlyle, Thomas

People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Proverb, French

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

James, William

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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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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 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

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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 am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Froude, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Waitley, Denis

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily