Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Epictetus

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Caesar, Julius

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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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Foreman, George

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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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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Giacomini, Lynwood 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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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Froude, James A.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Brown, Les

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Voltaire

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

John Lilly

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

Gerry Spence

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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