Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Gomez, Foka

Best Quotes about Belief

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Ovid

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

Gerry Spence

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, French

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Froude, James A.

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Caesar, Julius

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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

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Leo Rosten

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

Barnum, P.T.

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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