Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Virkkala, Timothy

Best Quotes about Belief

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Foreman, George

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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 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

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cousins, Norman

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Bach, Richard

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

Barnum, P.T.

34.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Noah Porter

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