Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

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

Virkkala, Timothy

Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Brown, Les

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Hare, David

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Gerry Spence

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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hodges, H. A.

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