Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Saying, Traditional

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Leo Rosten

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

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

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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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

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Proverb, French

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Seligan, Martin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Thomas, Isiah