Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Belief

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Bartholomew, Saint

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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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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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Froude, James A.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Hare, David

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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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

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

Hodges, H. A.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

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

Leo Rosten

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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 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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor