Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lewis Carroll

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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.

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

James, William

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Noah Porter

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Miller, Henry

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Laurence J. Peter

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Voltaire

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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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

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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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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Stein, Ben