Motivational Quotes

Belief

Men willingly believe what they wish.

- Julius Caesar

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

James, William

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

Epictetus

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Caesar, Julius

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Ovid

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Brown, Les

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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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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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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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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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.

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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De