Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Ditka, Mike

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ford, Henry

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Valery, Paul

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Russell, Bertrand

33.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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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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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Ovid

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Virkkala, Timothy