Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Leo Rosten

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Valvano, Jim

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Epictetus

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

Foreman, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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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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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Saying, Traditional

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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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Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Froude, James A.

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

Ditka, Mike

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

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Buckle, George Earle

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