Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Russell, Bertrand

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Froude, James A.

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

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

Valery, Paul

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

James, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Voltaire

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Brown, Les

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

Hare, David

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

Brown, Les

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

33.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Ford, Henry

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

Foreman, George

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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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