Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Leo Rosten

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

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.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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

Epictetus

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

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

Gifford, Frank

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, French

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

James, William

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Noah Porter

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

Rostand, Jean

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Lewis Carroll

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Laurence J. Peter

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Oscar Wilde

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Lilly, John C.