Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Caesar, Julius

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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.

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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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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.

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Brown, Les

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

Barker, Joel A.

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Rostand, Jean

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Laurence J. Peter

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin