Motivational Quotes

Belief

Man is what he believes.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

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

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

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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Oscar Wilde

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gerry Spence

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Barnum, P.T.

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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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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Noah Porter

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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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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Voltaire