Motivational Quotes

Belief

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Belief

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

Ross, Ruth

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Thomas, Isiah

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Foreman, George

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Miller, Henry

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

Caesar, Julius

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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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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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Froude, James A.

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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

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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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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Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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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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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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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Brown, Les

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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor