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

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cousins, Norman

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

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

Nizer, Louis

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Epictetus

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

Gerry Spence

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

Waitley, Denis

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.