Motivational Quotes

Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Belief

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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

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

Miller, Henry

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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

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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Barker, Joel A.

29.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Noah Porter

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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

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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert