Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Laurence J. Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Voltaire

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

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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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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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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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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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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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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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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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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.

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

Ford, Henry

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Foreman, George

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

James, William

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

Hare, David

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.