Motivational Quotes

Belief

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Hare, David

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Nizer, Louis

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Ovid

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Leo Rosten

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bach, Richard

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

James, William

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

Gerry Spence

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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.