Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kafka, Franz

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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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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

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

Proverb, French

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

Laurence J. Peter

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Voltaire

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

Fuller, Thomas

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Noah Porter

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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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.