Motivational Quotes

Belief

They can conquer who believe they can.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Ovid

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Proverb, French

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Voltaire

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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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

11.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

12.

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

Brown, Les

13.

I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

14.

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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

20.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Nizer, Louis

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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 you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

28.

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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Rostand, Jean

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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