Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Belief

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Proverb, French

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

James, William

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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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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Brown, Les

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hodges, H. A.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.