Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Belief

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Buffett, Warren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Proverb, French

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

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

Caesar, Julius

12.

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Brown, Les

13.

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

14.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

16.

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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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

18.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

19.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

21.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Brown, Les

23.

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

29.

Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

30.

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

31.

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.

32.

I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

33.

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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

35.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

36.

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

Mencken, H. L.

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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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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

40.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Valery, Paul

43.

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

Noah Porter

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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

45.

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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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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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.

48.

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

Ditka, Mike

49.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.