Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Borne, Ludwig

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Barker, Joel A.

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Froude, James A.

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

Cousins, Norman

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Miller, Henry

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Leo Rosten

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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

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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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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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Foreman, George

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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.