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

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.

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

Dickinson, Emily

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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

11.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Proverb, French

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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 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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Cousins, Norman

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Hare, David

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Leo Rosten

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

Valery, Paul

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

Lewis Carroll

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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