Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Gomez, Foka

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

Valery, Paul

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Epictetus

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hare, David

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Voltaire

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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

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

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, French

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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Noah Porter

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Gerry Spence

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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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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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.