Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Gerry Spence

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gifford, Frank

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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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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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Foreman, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Ovid

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.