Motivational Quotes

Belief

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Belief

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Oscar Wilde

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Leo Rosten

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

Miller, Henry

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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.

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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.

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

Barnum, P.T.

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis