Motivational Quotes

Belief

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Voltaire

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter

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

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.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Saying, Traditional

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 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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Gerry Spence

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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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.

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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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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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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

Ross, Ruth

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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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

Cordero Jr., Angel

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

Noah Porter

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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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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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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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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

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

Lewis Carroll

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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.

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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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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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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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