Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

James, William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Valery, Paul

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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 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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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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.

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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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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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

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Waitley, Denis

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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