Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Caesar, Julius

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Brown, Les

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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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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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Valery, Paul

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Voltaire

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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

Miller, Henry

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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