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

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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.

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

John Lilly

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Bach, Richard

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Waitley, Denis

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Gerry Spence

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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