Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Thomas, Isiah

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Miller, Henry

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

Ditka, Mike

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porter

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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

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Lilly, John C.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Ovid

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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hare, David

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.