Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Wieder, Marcia

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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

Gifford, Frank

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Marshall, Peter

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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

Epictetus

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

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

Froude, James A.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Foreman, George

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Lilly, John C.

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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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The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

Jung, Carl

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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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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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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.