Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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.

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

Proverb, French

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

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

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

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

Valery, Paul

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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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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Foreman, George

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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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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

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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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Gerry Spence

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Noah Porter

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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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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Ditka, Mike