Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lewis Carroll

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Noah Porter

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

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

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Valery, Paul

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Epictetus

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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 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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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

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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

Palmer, Arnold