Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Robinson, Sugar Ray

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Ford, Henry

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.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Miller, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

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

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Leo Rosten

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Froude, James A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.