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

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Murdock, Mike

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Cordero Jr., Angel

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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 can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Stein, Ben

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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Lewis Carroll

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Foreman, George

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

Bartholomew, Saint

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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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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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 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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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Loving is half of believing.

Hugo, Victor

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

Laurence J. Peter

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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All beliefs are bald ideas.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Borne, Ludwig

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

Ovid

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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