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

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Stein, Ben

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

Hodges, H. A.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Barnum, P.T.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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

Ovid

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

Bach, Richard

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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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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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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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Brown, Les

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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.

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

James, William

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Kafka, Franz

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.