Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Bartholomew, Saint

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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.

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

Laurence J. Peter

There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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'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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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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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

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hare, David

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Noah Porter

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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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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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.

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

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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