Motivational Quotes

Belief

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Epictetus

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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.

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

Kafka, Franz

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Foreman, George

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

Hodges, H. A.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Froude, James A.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

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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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

28.

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

29.

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

30.

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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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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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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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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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

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

Ovid

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

39.

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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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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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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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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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.