Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Valery, Paul

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.

If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will.

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

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Rostand, Jean

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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.

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

Ditka, Mike

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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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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

James, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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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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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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, 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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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