Motivational Quotes

Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Carlyle, Thomas

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Hill, Napoleon

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Miller, Henry

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

Epictetus

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

29.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

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

James, William

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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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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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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

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Lewis Carroll

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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.