Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Gifford, Frank

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

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

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

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Epictetus

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Gerry Spence

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Voltaire

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Bach, Richard

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

Kafka, Franz

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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

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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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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.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Ford, Henry

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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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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Waitley, Denis

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.