Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Brown, Les

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

James, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Gerry Spence

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Fuller, Thomas

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Lewis Carroll

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Ditka, Mike

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, French

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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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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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

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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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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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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.