Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Belief

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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

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

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

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

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

James, William

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Froude, James A.

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

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

Hare, David

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Ditka, Mike

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kafka, Franz

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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.