Motivational Quotes

Belief

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Brown, Les

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.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Gomez, Foka

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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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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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Borne, Ludwig

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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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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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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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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Hodges, H. A.

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

Leo Rosten

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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