Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Cordero Jr., Angel

Best Quotes about Belief

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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

Hill, Napoleon

People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Valery, Paul

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Laurence J. 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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Noah Porter

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Ditka, Mike

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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.