Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Gomez, Foka

Best Quotes about Belief

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Borne, Ludwig

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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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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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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Russell, Bertrand

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Proverb, French

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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.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Ovid

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law