Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Kafka, Franz

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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 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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Hare, David

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

Froude, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Foreman, George

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.