Motivational Quotes

Belief

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

- Saying, Traditional

Best Quotes about Belief

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

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Noah Porter

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bach, Richard

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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

18.

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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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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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Van Amburgh, F. D.

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Valery, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barnum, P.T.

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Gerry Spence

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

Froude, James A.

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis