Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hare, David

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Valvano, Jim

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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.

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Brown, Les

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Proverb, French

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

James, William

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Foreman, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Jenkins, David

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Seligan, Martin

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

Stein, Ben

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

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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