Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Belief

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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.

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

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Barker, Joel A.

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Leo Rosten

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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 the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Gifford, Frank

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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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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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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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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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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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