Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Voltaire

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

Ovid

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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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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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Gerry Spence

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Hare, David

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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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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Foreman, George

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Miller, Henry

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Mill, John Stuart