Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- John Lilly

Best Quotes about Belief

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

James, William

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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.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Noah Porter

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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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.

34.

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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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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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Man is what he believes.