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

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Lilly, John C.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Seligan, Martin

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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 practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

James, William

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

Ovid

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Mill, John Stuart

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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.