Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Caesar, Julius

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Foreman, George

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ovid

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Voltaire

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

John Lilly

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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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

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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 gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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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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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Laurence J. Peter

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Rostand, Jean

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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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.

Lippmann, Walter