Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Carlyle, Thomas

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Voltaire

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Seligan, Martin

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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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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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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Valvano, Jim

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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

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

Gerry Spence

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Epictetus

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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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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