Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about Belief

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Oscar Wilde

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

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

Foreman, George

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Fuller, 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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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

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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ditka, Mike

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

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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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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Hellman, Lillian

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Gomez, Foka

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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