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

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

Lilly, John C.

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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

4.

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

7.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

8.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

9.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

10.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

11.

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ovid

17.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

18.

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

19.

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

Valery, Paul

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

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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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

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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

24.

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

25.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

26.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

27.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

28.

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

Lewis Carroll

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

30.

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

31.

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

Valvano, Jim

32.

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

Hodges, H. A.

33.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

38.

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

Buffett, Warren

39.

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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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

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

43.

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

Hill, Napoleon

44.

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

45.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Miller, Henry

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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

48.

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

Foreman, George

49.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

50.

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

Leo Rosten