Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seligan, Martin

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Ford, Henry

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Epictetus

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

Borne, Ludwig

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Brown, Les

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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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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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Rostand, Jean

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