Motivational Quotes

Belief

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

- Rudolph, Wilma

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Leo Rosten

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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.

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

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

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

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kafka, Franz

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Voltaire

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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.

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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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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 man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional