Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

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Best Quotes about Belief

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

Russell, Bertrand

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Kafka, Franz

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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

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

Ovid

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Hare, David

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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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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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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

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Chesterfield, Lord