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

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.

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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.

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.

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

Lippmann, Walter

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Chesterfield, Lord

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

Lewis Carroll

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Gifford, Frank

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Kafka, Franz

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Foreman, George

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Gerry Spence

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

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

John Lilly

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

Hodges, H. A.

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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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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