Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Lilly, John C.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Lewis Carroll

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Nizer, Louis

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.

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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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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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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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Bartholomew, Saint

18.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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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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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Epictetus

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

March, General Peyton C.

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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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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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

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bach, Richard

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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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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne