Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Belief

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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.

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

Nizer, Louis

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

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

31.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Proverb, French

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

Dickinson, Emily

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

James, William

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.