Motivational Quotes

Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Belief

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

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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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Leo Rosten

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Fuller, Thomas

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Gerry Spence

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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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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Froude, James A.

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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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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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

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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 believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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 essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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