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

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

Leo Rosten

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Bach, Richard

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.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Brown, Les

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Proverb, French

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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

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

Nizer, Louis

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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 believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Hodges, H. A.