Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Belief

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

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

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ovid

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Valvano, Jim

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bach, Richard

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Laurence J. 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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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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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