Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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.

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

James, William

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Valery, Paul

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leo Rosten

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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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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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

Gifford, Frank

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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

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Ovid

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

Froude, James A.

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

Cousins, Norman

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Brown, Les

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Ford, Henry