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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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

Noah Porter

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

Hare, David

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.

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

Foreman, George

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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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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Valery, Paul

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Leo Rosten

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Valvano, Jim

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Proverb, French

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Man is what he believes.