Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

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

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Froude, James A.

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

Brown, Les

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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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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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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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

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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 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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Palmer, Arnold

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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 only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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