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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ford, Henry

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

Rostand, Jean

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Kafka, Franz

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Oscar Wilde

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ovid

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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

Voltaire

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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

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

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Stein, Ben

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

Leo Rosten