Motivational Quotes

Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

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

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Swift, Jonathan

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Brown, Les

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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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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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 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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gerry Spence

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Mencken, H. L.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.