Motivational Quotes

Belief

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Best Quotes about Belief

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

Gifford, Frank

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Lippmann, Walter

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Buckle, George Earle

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ditka, Mike

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Foreman, George

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hare, David

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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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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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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Wilde, Oscar

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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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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