Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Barker, Joel A.

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Nizer, Louis

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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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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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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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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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

Foreman, George

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

John Lilly

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

Valvano, Jim

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha