Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Belief

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Nizer, Louis

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Epictetus

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Noah Porter

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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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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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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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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 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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Barker, Joel A.

28.

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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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Proverb, French

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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 knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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

Foreman, George

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 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

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

Valery, Paul

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

Chesterfield, Lord