Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Belief

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Thomas, Isiah

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Froude, James A.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Leo Rosten

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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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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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Ditka, Mike

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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

Gerry Spence

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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