Motivational Quotes

Belief

Men willingly believe what they wish.

- Julius Caesar

Best Quotes about Belief

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

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

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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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.

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

Gifford, Frank

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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

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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 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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Noah Porter

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

John Lilly

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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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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.