Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

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

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

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

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Ovid

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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Kafka, Franz

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Epictetus

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Leo Rosten

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Foreman, George

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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