Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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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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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Proverb, French

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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Foreman, George

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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.

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Valery, Paul

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carlyle, Thomas