Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Belief

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

James, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Hodges, H. A.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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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We are what we believe we are

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Leo Rosten

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Foreman, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Borne, Ludwig

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Noah Porter

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine