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

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hill, Napoleon

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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.

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

Foreman, George

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Waitley, Denis

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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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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Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Epictetus

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

James, William

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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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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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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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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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Gerry Spence

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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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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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.