Motivational Quotes

Belief

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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Best Quotes about Belief

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Foreman, George

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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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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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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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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

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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.

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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Russell, Bertrand

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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

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

Saying, Traditional

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.