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

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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.

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

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

If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Brown, Les

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Caesar, Julius

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

John Lilly

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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