Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

James, William

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

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Lilly, John C.

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Waitley, Denis

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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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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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Hare, David

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

Nizer, Louis

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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

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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

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

Ovid

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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

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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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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Valvano, Jim