Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Belief

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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

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.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Noah Porter

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

Leo Rosten

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Nizer, Louis

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Brown, Les

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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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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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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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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Mencken, H. L.