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 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

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.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Miller, Henry

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Valery, Paul

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Saying, Traditional

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Kafka, Franz

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the 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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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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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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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