Motivational Quotes

Belief

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

- Thomas, Isiah

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Stein, Ben

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.

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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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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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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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nizer, Louis

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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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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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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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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.