Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Brown, Les

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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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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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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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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

Hare, David

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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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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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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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Noah Porter

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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