Motivational Quotes

Belief

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

- Lilly, John C.

Best Quotes about Belief

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Cousins, Norman

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

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

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

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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Waitley, Denis

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

James, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Kafka, Franz

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Ovid

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

Lewis Carroll

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.