Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Oscar Wilde

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Stein, Ben

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Proverb, French

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Froude, James A.

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Foreman, George

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Saying, Traditional

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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