Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Caesar, Julius

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

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

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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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

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Froude, James A.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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