Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Miller, Henry

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

Cousins, Norman

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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

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Voltaire

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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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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Ovid

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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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 we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Brown, Les

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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.