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

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lewis Carroll

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Miller, Henry

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Ditka, Mike

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Caesar, Julius

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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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James