Motivational Quotes

Belief

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

- Anthony, Dr. Robert

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

Leo Rosten

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

John Lilly

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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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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Gerry Spence

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Proverb, French

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

Cousins, Norman

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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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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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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray