Motivational Quotes

Belief

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Belief

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

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Brown, Les

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

James, William

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Gerry Spence

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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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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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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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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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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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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 distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Bach, Richard

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Hellman, Lillian