Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Leo Rosten

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Saying, Traditional

Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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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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

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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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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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kafka, Franz

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Froude, James A.

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

John Lilly

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, 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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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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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

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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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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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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

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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bach, Richard

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

Epictetus

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

Valvano, Jim

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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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