Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Seligan, Martin

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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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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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 word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Cousins, Norman

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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Man makes holy what he believes.