Motivational Quotes

Belief

Loving is half of believing.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Belief

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

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

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.

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

Saying, Traditional

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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Hare, David

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Voltaire

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

Lewis Carroll

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb, French

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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.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Gomez, Foka

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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

28.

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

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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

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

James, William

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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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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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kafka, Franz