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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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.

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Ford, Henry

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Valery, Paul

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Epictetus

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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.

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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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

Froude, James A.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Laurence J. Peter

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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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

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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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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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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne