Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Froude, James A.

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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis Carroll

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Proverb, French

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Noah Porter

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.