Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

John Lilly

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.

Bartholomew, Saint

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

12.

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.

13.

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

Noah Porter

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

17.

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

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

20.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

22.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

23.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

24.

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

Buckle, George Earle

25.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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.

27.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

28.

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

Ford, Henry

29.

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

30.

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

Ovid

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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.

33.

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

Cousins, Norman

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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.

36.

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

Brown, Les

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

39.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

40.

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

Caesar, Julius

41.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

42.

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

James, William

43.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

44.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

45.

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

47.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

48.

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

Robbins, Anthony

49.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

50.

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

Miller, Henry