Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

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Best Quotes about Belief

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Valery, Paul

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

Lewis Carroll

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ovid

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Oscar Wilde

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Stein, Ben

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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