Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

John Lilly

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.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ditka, Mike

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

10.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

11.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

12.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

13.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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

25.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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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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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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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Hare, David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Hodges, H. A.

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Leo Rosten