Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Nizer, Louis

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

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

Stein, Ben

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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.

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

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

John Lilly

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Lewis Carroll

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Ovid

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gifford, Frank

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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

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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