Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Waitley, Denis

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Gerry Spence

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

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Foreman, George

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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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

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence