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

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.

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Seligan, Martin

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Valvano, Jim

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Lewis Carroll

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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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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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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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 what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Leo Rosten

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

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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