Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

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

Froude, James A.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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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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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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Nizer, Louis

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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

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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

Proverb, French

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

Fuller, Thomas

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, 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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Mencken, H. L.