Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Leo Rosten

Best Quotes about Belief

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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.

2.

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

3.

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

4.

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

5.

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

Proverb, French

6.

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

7.

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

8.

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

9.

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

John Lilly

10.

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

Gomez, Foka

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

13.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

Laurence J. Peter

16.

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.

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

19.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

20.

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

21.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

22.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

23.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

24.

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

25.

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

26.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

27.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

28.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

29.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

30.

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

Stein, Ben

31.

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

Mill, John Stuart

32.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

36.

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

Dickinson, Emily

37.

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.

38.

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

39.

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

40.

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

James, William

41.

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

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

44.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

45.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

46.

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

47.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

48.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

49.

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

50.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray