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

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Pascal, Blaise

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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

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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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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Kafka, Franz

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Valvano, Jim

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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

Foreman, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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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

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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Ditka, Mike

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You'll see it when you believe it.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Cannon's Law

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De