Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Gerry Spence

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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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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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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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 very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Epictetus

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Proverb, French

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hare, David

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