Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Wieder, Marcia

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Kafka, Franz

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Ovid

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

Stein, Ben

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Valery, Paul

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

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

Foreman, George

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Barnum, P.T.

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bach, Richard

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Chesterfield, Lord