Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Ovid

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

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

Thomas, Isiah

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Hare, David

10.

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.

11.

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

Swift, Jonathan

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Stein, Ben

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Gifford, Frank

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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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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.

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

36.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

37.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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