Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Noah Porter

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

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Brown, Les

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

Epictetus

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

Hare, David

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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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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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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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

Ovid

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Kafka, Franz

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand