Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Russell, Bertrand

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Valvano, Jim

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Waitley, Denis

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

Kafka, Franz

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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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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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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