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

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

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Valvano, Jim

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Leo Rosten

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Voltaire

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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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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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

James, William

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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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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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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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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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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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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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