Motivational Quotes

Belief

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Bach, Richard

One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Rostand, Jean

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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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