Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Barnum, P.T.

Best Quotes about Belief

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Voltaire

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. 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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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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 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 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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Foreman, George

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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

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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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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