Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Bach, Richard

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, French

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Oscar Wilde

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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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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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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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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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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.

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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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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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Lewis Carroll

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Foreman, George

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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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

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