Motivational Quotes

Belief

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

- Ralph Hodgson

Best Quotes about Belief

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

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

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

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Valvano, Jim

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

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Hodges, H. A.

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Gerry Spence

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Laurence J. Peter

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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

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

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

Brown, Les

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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