Motivational Quotes

Belief

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Belief

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

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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.

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

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

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

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

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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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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

Noah Porter

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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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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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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Barton, Bruce

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

Virkkala, Timothy

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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 what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine, St.

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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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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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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 art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Hare, David

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

Leo Rosten

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

Valvano, Jim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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We are what we believe we are