Motivational Quotes

Belief

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Belief

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

John Lilly

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saying, Traditional

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.

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

Foreman, George

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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

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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Gerry Spence

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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 conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De