Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Kafka, Franz

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Miller, Henry

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

James, William

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Foreman, George

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Bach, Richard

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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