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

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.

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

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Caesar, Julius

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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.

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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Brown, Les

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Epictetus

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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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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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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Foreman, George

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