Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Proverb, French

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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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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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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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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nizer, Louis

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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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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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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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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.

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg 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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Laurence J. Peter

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Ditka, Mike

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

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

James, William

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Gomez, Foka

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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