Motivational Quotes

Belief

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

- Craik, Dinah Mulock

Best Quotes about Belief

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Hodges, H. A.

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Saying, Traditional

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

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Caesar, Julius

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

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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 freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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.

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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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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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.

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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

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

Gifford, Frank

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Cousins, Norman

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold