Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Gifford, Frank

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Wilde, Oscar

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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.

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

Gerry Spence

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

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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kafka, Franz

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

James, William

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Mill, John Stuart

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Bach, Richard

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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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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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bartholomew, Saint