Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Belief

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Froude, James A.

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

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Seligan, Martin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Foreman, George

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Miller, Henry

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ovid

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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 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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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Leo Rosten

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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.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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