Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Mcwilliams, Peter

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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.

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

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Bach, Richard

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Froude, James A.

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

Epictetus

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

Hare, David

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

Ovid

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Stein, Ben

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

Voltaire

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

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Brown, Les

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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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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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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 must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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