Motivational Quotes

Belief

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

- Ralph Hodgson

Best Quotes about Belief

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

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

Voltaire

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Gerry Spence

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

Proverb, French

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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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

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Hare, David

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De