Motivational Quotes

Belief

All beliefs are bald ideas.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

Valery, Paul

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Gerry Spence

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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