Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Foreman, George

To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lewis Carroll

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

10.

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

11.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

12.

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

Gomez, Foka

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Swift, Jonathan

17.

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Ovid

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

Leo Rosten

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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

Gerry Spence

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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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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Epictetus

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

Kafka, Franz

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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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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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Hare, David

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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