Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Belief

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buffett, Warren

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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

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

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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Lewis Carroll

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Foreman, George

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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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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Oscar Wilde

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Epictetus

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les