Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Belief

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Ovid

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Bach, Richard

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Russell, Bertrand

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Kafka, Franz

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Gomez, Foka