Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Leo Rosten

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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

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

10.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Valery, Paul

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

18.

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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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.

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Stein, Ben

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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Proverb, French

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.