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

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Proverb, French

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.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

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

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

Froude, James A.

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Oscar Wilde

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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Epictetus

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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 are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Foreman, George

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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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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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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

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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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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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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Rostand, Jean

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

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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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 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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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Loving is half of believing.