Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Nizer, Louis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Proverb, French

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Leo Rosten

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Cousins, Norman

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Brown, Les

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