Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lewis Carroll

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Thomas, Isiah

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lewis Carroll

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Voltaire

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb, French

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Gerry Spence

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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

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

Ovid

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David