Motivational Quotes

Belief

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Hare, David

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

Gerry Spence

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, French

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Gomez, Foka

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Gifford, Frank

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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius