Motivational Quotes

Belief

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Belief

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

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lewis Carroll

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gerry Spence

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

Noah Porter

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

Epictetus

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

Foreman, George

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Ovid

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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson