Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bartholomew, Saint

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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.

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Ovid

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

James, William

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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

Proverb, French

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Gifford, Frank

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hare, David

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

Epictetus

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

Gomez, Foka

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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