Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Lewis Carroll

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nizer, Louis

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

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Noah Porter

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Gerry Spence

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von