Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

James, William

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

7.

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

Cousins, Norman

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

18.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

20.

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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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

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

29.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

30.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Russell, Bertrand

32.

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

Kafka, Franz

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Ditka, Mike

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

40.

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

Proverb, French

41.

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

Foreman, George

42.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

44.

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

Valery, Paul

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.