Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Thomas, Isiah

Best Quotes about Belief

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

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Voltaire

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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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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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Noah Porter

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

James, William

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

Foreman, George

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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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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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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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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.