Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Nizer, Louis

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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.

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

Brown, Les

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

Valery, Paul

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

Voltaire

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, French

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

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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

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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

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Waitley, Denis

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Brown, Les

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Bach, Richard

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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Dickinson, Emily