Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Laurence J. Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Miller, Henry

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Rostand, Jean

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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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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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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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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ovid

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart