Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man is what he believes.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Belief

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

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Mill, John Stuart

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Foreman, George

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

Ovid

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hare, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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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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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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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Leo Rosten

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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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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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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