Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Valvano, Jim

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.

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

Miller, Henry

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Leo Rosten

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Valery, Paul

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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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

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hare, David

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

Saying, Traditional

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