Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Belief

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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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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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hare, David

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Nizer, Louis

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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