Motivational Quotes

Belief

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Belief

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.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Valvano, Jim

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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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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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Barker, Joel A.

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

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Gomez, Foka

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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 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.

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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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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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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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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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Laurence J. Peter