Motivational Quotes

Belief

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

- Trollope, Anthony

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Noah Porter

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Bach, Richard

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Froude, James A.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Seligan, Martin

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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.

43.

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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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