Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Ditka, Mike

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

John Lilly

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Swift, Jonathan

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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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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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Ditka, Mike

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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

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Voltaire

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Ovid

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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 gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

Proverb, French

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

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

James, William

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock