Motivational Quotes

Belief

Belief creates the actual fact.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Foreman, George

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Miller, Henry

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

Leo Rosten

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Noah Porter

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Gerry Spence

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

Hare, David

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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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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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Proverb, French

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

James, William

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

Voltaire

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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