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

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

Valvano, Jim

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Cousins, Norman

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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

Brown, Les

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Hare, David

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

Fuller, Thomas

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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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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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Gifford, Frank

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Miller, Henry