Motivational Quotes

Belief

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Borne, Ludwig

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.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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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

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Foreman, George