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

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Cousins, Norman

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

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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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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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Froude, James A.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Russell, Bertrand

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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

Stein, Ben

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

Foreman, George

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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 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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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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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 we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.