Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Brown, Les

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Froude, James A.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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

Leo Rosten

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Voltaire

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.