Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

Best Quotes about Belief

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

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

Leo Rosten

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

James, William

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.

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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

Foreman, George

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Valery, Paul

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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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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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Carlson, Curtis

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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 most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ross, Ruth

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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

Gifford, Frank

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

Ovid

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Waitley, Denis

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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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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Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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

Giacomini, Lynwood L.

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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.