Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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

Noah Porter

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Gifford, Frank

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine 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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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Valery, Paul

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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 battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.