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

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

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Foreman, George

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Oscar Wilde

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gomez, Foka

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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 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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Leo Rosten

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

Kafka, Franz

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Ovid

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

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.