Motivational Quotes

Belief

You must see first before you can believe.

- Holliwell, Raymond

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

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

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

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

Leo Rosten

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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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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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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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

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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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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Oscar Wilde

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Noah Porter

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Ovid

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

James, William

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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

Mill, John Stuart