Motivational Quotes

Belief

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

- Saint Augustine

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Seligan, Martin

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

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Saying, Traditional

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

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Gerry Spence

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Barker, Joel A.

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Hare, David

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Brown, Les

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

Foreman, George

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Ditka, Mike

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Gifford, Frank

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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.