Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Oscar Wilde

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Voltaire

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Ovid

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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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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Leo Rosten

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Waitley, Denis

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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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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