Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Belief

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

John Lilly

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

Ditka, Mike

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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Buckle, George Earle

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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.

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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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

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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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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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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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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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Ovid

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Noah Porter

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