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

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

We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Hellman, Lillian

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Ditka, Mike

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

10.

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

11.

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

12.

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

John Lilly

13.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

15.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

16.

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

21.

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

James, William

22.

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

23.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Waitley, Denis

27.

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

Miller, Henry

28.

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

Nizer, Louis

29.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Kafka, Franz

38.

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

39.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

43.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

44.

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

45.

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

46.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

47.

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

48.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

49.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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