Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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

Gifford, Frank

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

James, William

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Valery, Paul

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lewis Carroll

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Miller, Henry

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ditka, Mike

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Leo Rosten

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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