Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Leo Rosten

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Epictetus

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

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Foreman, George

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, French

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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Kafka, Franz

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Ovid

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.