Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Belief

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Wilde, Oscar

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

Valvano, Jim

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hare, David

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

Epictetus

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Dickinson, Emily

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Noah Porter

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Oscar Wilde

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

James, William

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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

Ditka, Mike