Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Borne, Ludwig

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Gerry Spence

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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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

23.

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

Miller, Henry

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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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