Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Bartholomew, Saint

Best Quotes about Belief

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Noah Porter

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.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Nizer, Louis

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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

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Kafka, Franz

34.

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Rostand, Jean

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying, Traditional

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