Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

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

Bartholomew, Saint

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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.

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

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

Voltaire

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Leo Rosten

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Gerry Spence

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

James, William

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

John Lilly

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Borne, Ludwig

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow