Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Gomez, Foka

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

Barker, Joel A.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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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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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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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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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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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Lewis Carroll

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Leo Rosten

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

Brown, Les

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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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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Hare, David

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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