Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Belief

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Voltaire

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

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

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Brown, Les

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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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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 gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

John Lilly

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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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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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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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