Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man is what he believes.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Belief

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Saying, Traditional

You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never -- yes, never -- sell yourself short.

Schwartz, David J.

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

You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Foreman, George

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Froude, James A.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Barnum, P.T.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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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 can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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.

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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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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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

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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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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

James, William

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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